Epicore Biosystems’ Gx Sweat Patch
Epicore Biosystems’ Gx Sweat Patch [Photo courtesy of Epicore Biosystems]
Category: Personal Technology (& Gadgets)
Subcategory: Smart Wearable
From the winners: “Epicore Biosystems has developed a novel wearable biosensor, called Gx Sweat Patch, which analyzes your sweat. This device is soft, imperceptible on the skin during exercise and team sports. It contains a network of microfluidic channels that can capture and measure multiple sweat biomarkers and sweat dynamics in real-time.”
“Our core technology was developed at Northwestern’s Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics by leading materials scientist pioneer professor John Rogers and Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari. For decades, sports scientists and athletes have been seeking remote solutions to address the growing challenge of managing dehydration in athletes. Epicore Biosystems was incorporated in 2017 to tackle personalized hydration management by developing a point-of-care wearable microfluidic device with onboard biosensors. We prototyped and gathered customer feedback with Gatorade labs, which resulted in the first-ever wearable sweat sensor product — the Gx Sweat Patch.”
“Epicore Biosystems has commercially launched the first clinically-validated wearable sweat-sensing solution to enter the market beginning with the Gx Sweat Patch. Our wearable products and cloud analytics found their initial applications in sports and fitness with real-time rehydration insights delivered to the athlete over the course of days, weeks and across the season. But it does not end there. We have begun scaling up to create offerings tailored for industrial athletes and military personnel, who face the perils of extreme heat in an ever-warming planet on a daily basis.”
