Beat the Heat
Keeping our workforce safe
by detecting early signs of heat exhaustion
Protective Equipment – but Smart
We keep non-desk workers safe with our wearable technology that detects early signs of heat stress and overexertion – increasing safety and reducing costs.
Personalized Safety
Equipping workers with smart protective equipment, allowing for workflows that are adapted to them – not the other way around.
Early Intervention
Obtaining relevant physiological data where it matters, enabling a proactive, human-centric approach to occupational safety.
Impact Validation
Bringing proper data to safety professionals, supporting them in making decisions about exposure limits and worker safety.
Meet epyGUARD™
A B2B safety platform driven by health data – detecting early signs of heat exhaustion, allowing for personalized and sector-specific safety benchmarks.
We are dedicated to our biggest workforce: non-desk workers. Managing heavy jobs and operating in stressful and harsh environments, they are in many ways the industrial equivalent to athletes.
Unfortunately, they are also most affected by workplace accidents, mostly due to heat exhaustion – where the workers suffer from physiological strain, often linked to heat stress.
We connect at-risk workers with our smart PPE, a wearable solution that detects early signs of heat exhaustion without interrupting activity.
Our solution can be applied to existing occupational health & safety standards (e.g., ISO 7933, OSHA standard) and allows for companies to create sector-specific safety benchmarks with ongoing impact validation.
The epyGUARD™ solution includes:
epySHIELD™
Our wearable, integrated into a detachable torso belt
* stay tuned for our helmet integration
epyTWIN™ Suite
Our SaaS safety platform, equipping safety professionals with a tool for data-driven, early intervention and ongoing impact validation
Detecting
early signs of
Heat Exhaustion
ThermoTwin®
Our proprietary physiological model understands our bodies’ thermoregulation and can be applied to occupational health & safety standards. We measure all relevant vital signs with our epySHIELD™ wearable – including sweat, the 1st reaction our body has towards stress:
Sweat Rate
Core Body Temperature
Activity
Heart Rate
Vibration alert
Communication via BLE
Sync recorded data once per week
Historic and live
team dashboard
Integrates into intelligent garments
Re-charge once per week
Swiss patented technology
Occupational safety will not and cannot work with ‘just another wearable’: it requires clinically reliable performance measurements and industry-specific physiological know-how to protect at-risk workers from exhaustion. We present a deep understanding of what is measured, what it means, and its relevance and impact for the human physiology with our four levels of technology and IP:
Sensor Modalities
Our product is engineered in-house and critical parts are produced and manufactured exclusively in Switzerland using high-quality materials and processes.
Wearable Device
Our wearable is capable of acquiring all relevant vital signs for thermoregulation, including the measurement of sweat rate and total sweat loss as an indication of impending dehydration.
Physiological Model
Our ThermoTwin® is a proprietary physiological model of thermoregulation that has been developed by experts from ETH over the past 6 years and can be applied to occupational health & safety standards.
Software Platform
We provide a software solution that brings data-driven decision making to companies to protect workers and balance productivity.
Founder team from ETH
Dr. Felix Lustenberger
Co-Founder // Co-CEO
Felix has a background in Micro Engineering (EPFL) and Electrical Engineering (ETH). He was Business Development Manager of a major, world-wide metrology company, headed a private Swiss SME, and co-created 6 tech-startups. He (co-)authored >70 patent applications and scientific publications.
Edith Schmid
Co-Founder // Co-CEO // MOB
Edith holds a BA degree in Business from HSG and a MA degree in Philosophy of Knowledge from ETH. Formerly a Senior Consultant at PwC with Life Sciences focus, she served as president of the ETH Entrepreneur Club and helped build a MedTech startup from scratch to 15 people as CEO of the former Swiss MedTech startup Kenzen AG.
Dr. Yves Delley
Co-Founder // CTO
Yves completed his PhD degree in Physics at ETH in 2017. With deep knowledge on Optics, Semiconductor Physics, Nanotechnology, Electronics and Metrology, he led the development of a wearable device for mass production and created multiple measurement algorithms that today are successful parts of commercial products.
Prof. Dr. Peter Seitz
Co-Founder // COB
Peter has a background in Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Nanomedicine and Semiconductors. He co-created the ETH Startup Accelerator ieLab, headed 3 research organizations, co-created 10 Tech startups, co-invented 75 patents, and co-authored >200 publications in the fields of Semiconductor Sensing/Imaging, Machine Vision and AI. With his teams, he won 20 international innovation awards.
Supported by
Innosuisse
Innosuisse supports science-based innovation projects.
From preliminary studies right through to projects
without implementation partners – your start-up opportunities are manifold.
Venture Kick
ETH Entrepreneur-Club
The ETH Entrepreneur-Club is a non-profit and student-run initiative with the mission to empower the next generation of Entrepreneurs. Trough various events and workshops focusing on inspiring, educating and accelerating young entrepreneurs we want to achieve this mission.
RUAG Innovation Accelerator
As a key and driving force, RUAG provides selected start-ups and small enterprises with an innovation platform with a strong academic link, technical know-how and an established business network. Together, we develop innovative ideas to increase the security of Switzerland.
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epyMetrics AG
Friesenbergstrasse 108
8055 Zürich