 Hi, so we're here at the ArtieTechX show with Joanne and research and Gregor, could you tell us a little bit about what you do and what you're showing here at the booth today? Very well, so what you see here is the Biasoflex technology and this was a research technology developed at Joanne and research which is a non-profit research organization located in Austria and Biasoflex itself means it's a fully printed ferroelectric sensor and ferroelectricity means the sensor has the ability to detect changes in pressure as well as temperature and we also use fiber acoustics as additional feature for structure-borne sound for example. Right, so here you've got sort of a smart floor product with a sensor in it, can you show us a little bit of that? So what you see here is a sensor directly integrated in the wooden floor build-up and directly in the wooden tile. In this case we use the structure-borne sound and here is the visualization, we have three sensors in each tile and when you walk around a sensor detects the vibration pattern and here you see the visualization which you can use for smart living applications like fold detection system, alarm system, also people counting in public spaces and even energy harvesting is feasible. So how much energy would you be able to harvest in this kind of thing in a public space? It's quite a tricky question to answer, it always depends on the sensor build-up and also on the deformation you have, so if you have a high deformation of course you gain higher energy but we made a calculation that we know that a human step has in the range of four Watt bringing in energy and one square centimeter of our sensor is able to harvest four micro Watt, so quite low but by engineering this value can of course be increased. And so this is a, so it's a principal sensor over a large area? It's in principal printable, so the fabrication of the sensor is a standard screen printing process, it's composed of only four functional layers, so you print the first step a bottom electrode, then this sensor active polymer, a top electrode and finally the silver linings to connect the sensor to read out electronics and if you want you can also print and protection layer to prevent from mechanical abrasion. The overall sensor thickness is in the range of only 10 to 15 microns, so very very thin, if I compare it always to a human hair which has about 80 microns, so compared to this it's really a thin technology and I think printed electronics, everybody's well aware that screen printing also offers you a high freedom in geometry and design, so we can adjust the geometry to customer specific needs as well as the electronics needed for the readout of the sensor. Great, so and you're showing some other demos here on the booth today, can you talk us through these? I have some other demos, for example this demonstrator is combined three times five sensor matrix as a backplane application with an e-ink display from plastic logic and here you have different interaction modes like the swiping gesture, the display changes, then you have the touch to activate and of course due to the flexibility of the sensor and the display you have the third dimension of input for flexible electronic devices, so maybe the flip cover for smartphones but also the electronic wallet which is shown here and many different applications also flexible ear reader would be possible, so loads of new applications can be realized with this technology. So you see these bends, so you got to get bending radius you can use that as a sensor? You can use it as a sensor but you have to be quite trained to this, I think you have to apply a certain pressure, oh I see, so it's tuning to the pressure I see and then the flexibility for example in this case identity card you can swipe through so you can also implement navigation system many many different, it's quite thin and this is just a 3d printed cover to stabilize the whole system and another demo we have here is all you see here the bison flex sensor again we say this is a condition monitor and demonstrator it enables the touch which you see on the display the click it also reacts to compression of air the swipe so you get air compression and also detects the status of the engine like it's on now you can see it's on but not moving and now when you have the engine on and the rotation you see the rotations per minute and the frequency so this is also by acoustically readout and we see this acoustic ability for bison flex as a strong new field which we want to explore you can turn it on increase the rotations decrease it so we see this application for example for cyber physical systems like predictive maintenance or as shown as a condition demonstration so this is again using the bison flex sensor on the top of here for any machine state just for as a technical demonstrator to show the proof of concept but we at journey and research the bison flex team has also the ability to make high quality demonstrators which fits the needs of the possible customer that he can show that bison flex can really be used in a new application every customer may has in mind so this would be within something like an automotive space or some industrial monitoring or anything like that okay yeah excellent and then all about this demo here is sort of a more flexible version this is a very flexible version so here is the sensor printed on a only 25 micron thick thermoplastic polyurethane which is also for medical standards in this case we use it for a skin application it can be directly attached to the skin for example for a heartbeat or restoration monitoring and due to the low overall thickness of this material it can also be easily integrated into different build-ups like artificial leather like textiles or even into furniture just to make objects smart and giving them a function for human machine interaction and in terms of development so you're working on integrating the materials into the sensors but so would you work when with a electronics contract manufacturer to do the readouts or anything separately or would you do those yourself we do this also ourselves so we have a strong ability because we know the sensor itself is very strong but you have for customized solutions you always also have to think about the readout electronics to bring these parts together and what we have we have a strategic partnership with piazzadec hakema who's making the upscaling of the ink and we also identified uh this is the piazzadec material and we have also identified um a contract manufacturer um the company almax who can make the sensors um at high throughputs printing process so bisonflex from jr your name research piazzadec and almax so it's ready for mass production okay and uh this demo is just another geometry it's a three times five matrix which is also used as a backplane for this demo attached to the backside of the display and it's just a technical demonstration that you can see the interaction you have the swipe gesture which is shown here the strongest input of course you have the bending so the flexibility here you see the signals of bending also the voltage gained and um of course this sensor is addressed we also have the pressure level detection so in principle um with our readout electronics we have the ability to detect different pressure levels so with applied pressure you can use the system for a different interaction that's when you have a strong pressure sure so and we see the bisonflex technology as a new technology platform which enables loads of applications making objects smart and also be used for example in iot sensor applications great so how's your experience been at the adi techie show these last few days very very good um it's the third time we are exhibiting at the show so last year here in berlin was the first time then at the us you went and um we have as you see here loads of different or many contacts um with many different application ideas and so we see adi techie show also is enabled to go the next step for making a business out of bisonflex technology fantastic very good well thank you very much for taking the time to do the video today and all the best for the future thank you thank you very much