Reply SpA will acquire twenty percent interest in Sensoria, and will also work closely with its customers and industry partners to build 'Internet of Everyone' products, by maximizing the Sensoria SDK, the first open development platform based on both traditional and bio-sensing fabric sensors.
The Sensoria multidisciplinary team is comprised of materials engineers, software and hardware engineers, product and user experience experts. The first collection of Sensoria wearable technologies includes a sports bra, t-shirt and socks that track your biometric data via textile sensors embedded into the fabric. These sensors are connected to on board electronics designed for each garment to relay heart rate, activity, running form, wellness and fitness levels to the Sensoria mobile app in real-time, giving the wearer and his trusted medical or training advisor actionable information.
"Smart clothing helps professional athletes, as well as everyday fitness enthusiasts, to improve performance and monitor health and wellness in real time," said Davide Vigano, co-founder and chief executive officer of Sensoria Inc. "Sensoria is becoming the 'Internet of Everyone' wearable platform provider. Thanks to our technology, comprised of textile and traditional sensors, electronics, cloud and mobile software, each garment becomes a biometric data-gathering device."
Continued Vigano, "This round of financing, coupled with Reply's system integration capabilities and business reach will help us to accelerate the pace of innovation, convert data into wisdom and make vision become reality for our customers and partners."
As part of the transaction Heapsylon, a Nevada limited liability company, has grown into Sensoria Inc., a Delaware corporation. The company was founded based on the vision that clothing would become the fulcrum between the Internet of Things and People (IoT and IoP) as a seamless, naturally wearable body-sensing computer. Sensoria will use the funding to drive engineering, sales and marketing efforts.