AREA member RealWear was named the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Wearables New Product Innovation Award 2017.
RealWear wins Industrial Wearables New Product Innovation Award 2017
AREA member RealWear was named the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Wearables New Product Innovation Award 2017. Details can be read in full in the 12-page document with the key facts being summarised below.
AREA member RealWear was named the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Wearables New Product Innovation Award 2017. Details can be read in full in the 12-page document with the key facts being summarised below:
Industry challenges are explained. Wearables adoption in industrial sectors began with handheld devices such as rugged mobiles and tablets customized for industrial surroundings.
RealWear, is an industrial wearables start-up based in Silicon Valley, US that has bridged the gap between high-performance hardware and user-friendly software to create a new rugged hands-free head-mounted tablet for industrial applications in sectors including oil and gas, automotive, and mining.
Details of RealWear’s HMT-1 new product attributes and customer impact are explained. As RealWear HMT-1 is predominantly used for applications such as maintenance and data collection in hostile environments in the oil and gas, energy, and utilities sectors, its reliability has a direct impact on the downtime, production, and cost incurred for the customer.
Features of the product are highlighted, including line of sight. While most of the industrial wearables in the market hinder the operator’s line-of-sight in some way, HMT-1 is inherently designed to minimize disruption to the operator’s line-of sight, and the arm can even be completely moved out of sight, or can be shifted to left or right, depending on the user’s preference. Adding to this flexibility, HMT-1 can clip onto many models of personal protective equipment (PPE) hard hat and be used with any type of eyeglasses.
The report goes on to explain the significance of new product innovation.