Lab2Market Assesment: Mobile & Cozy - an all-textile heating-assisted therapy platform for sufferers of chronic pain

Lab2Market 评估：移动

• 批准号: 571236-2022
• 负责人: Skorobogatiy, Maksim
• 金额: $ 1.46万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Idea to Innovation
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=729090
• 关键词: Lab2Market; Assesment; Mobile; Cozy; textile

We aim at a fully mobile solution for providing thermal comfort to clients suffering from various chronic pain conditions. In fact, 1 in 5 adults in North America suffers from such pains, while most of them continue to be active in the workforce. While a variety of thermo-therapy products exist in the form of heat packs, and small ceramic heaters integrated into various parts of a wearable, most such solutions currently require non-portable energy sources (like a microwave), or they are not discrete or seamlessly integrated. These factors significantly limit the use of such products at the workplace, while making them more appropriate for home and recreation environments. The current heating pad market in the US alone is $110M and is projected to grow to $150M in 5 years. We believe that capturing the market share for such products related to at-work or in-the-office use has significant business potential, as few products are available that are specifically designed for this operation modality.Our solution is a discrete fully textile-based heating pad that can be seamlessly integrated into any wearable product either as an insert or a weave/embroidery pattern to provide controlled heating and pain relief over several hours. A combination of the three factors: discreteness, seamless integration, and convenience is a unique combination that makes our product particularly suitable for at-work and in-the-office use. There are three enabling technologies that we are developing to make our product discrete (visually indistinguishable from a wearable), seamlessly integrated (of the same texture and mechanical properties as a wearable), and convenient to use (all-textile electronics, compliant power sources, wireless power). The project profits from a fusion of the developed know-how and IP-protected technologies.

我们的目标是完全移动的解决方案，为患有各种慢性疼痛状况的客户提供热舒适。实际上，北美五分之一的成年人遭受了这种痛苦，而大多数人继续活跃于劳动力中。虽然各种热疗法以热包的形式存在，而小型陶瓷加热器则集成到可穿戴的各个部分中，但目前大多数这样的解决方案都需要不可便携的能源（例如微波炉），或者它们不是离散的或不是离散的或无缝集成。这些因素大大限制了在工作场所使用此类产品的使用，同时使它们更适合家庭和娱乐环境。仅在美国，目前的加热垫市场就是1.1亿美元，预计在5年内将增长到1.5亿美元。我们认为，捕获与AT-WORK或办公室使用有关的产品的市场份额具有巨大的业务潜力，因为很少有专门为该操作模式设计的产品。我们的解决方案是一种离散的基于完全纺织的基于纺织品可以将其作为插入物或编织/绣花图案无缝集成到任何可穿戴产品中的加热垫，以在几个小时内提供受控的加热和疼痛缓解。这三个因素的结合：离散性，无缝集成和便利性是一种独特的组合，使我们的产品特别适合于工作和办公室使用。我们正在开发三种能够使产品离散（在视觉上与可穿戴状态无法区分），无缝集成（具有相同的纹理和机械性能与可穿戴）且方便使用（全纹理电子设备，合规性的功率来源） ，无线电源）。该项目从开发的知识和IP保护技术的融合中获利。