The centrepiece of Kinexon's ’SafeZone’ is a small white box equipped with a sensor that can be worn on the body in the form of so-called wearables - as a bracelet, clip or lanyard. Image: Kinexon
The centrepiece of Kinexon's 'SafeZone' is a small white box equipped with a sensor that can be worn on the body in the form of so-called wearables - as a bracelet, clip or lanyard. Image: Kinexon TUM start-up Kinexon facilitates restart in US sports - Kinexon, the start-up founded by graduates of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), develops hardware and software that traces the movements of athletes, but which can also be used to automate production processes in industry. A new contact tracing technology developed by the company is now playing a role in the restart of the major US sports leagues. At the beginning of the Corona pandemic the TUM start-up Kinexon quickly developed a system that issues a warning in case of inadequate social distancing and which also supports contact tracing. The heart of this "SafeZone" solution is a little white box equipped with a sensor that can be carried on the body as a wearable for example on an armband, clip or lanyard. When two of these sensors come into proximity with one another for a certain period of time, they issue an optical and acoustic warning signal. The minimum separation distance can be set to various values, for example to the 1.5 meters recommended by the Robert Koch Institute, in order to minimize the risk of Covid-19 infections.
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