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FEATURE: WEARABLES
advantage of using wearables technology to
remain competitive.
Andreas Koenig, CEO of ProGlove
of customers. Today, the company operates
on a global scale, serving more than 500
customers around the world from its offices
in Munich, Germany and Chicago, Illinois.
“The market for industrial wearables is
large and rapidly growing and we believe
ProGlove is well-positioned for continued
growth as manufacturing and shipping
processes increasingly depend upon smart
scanning solutions to optimise productivity,”
said Johannes Grefe, a Principal at Summit
Partners who has joined the company’s
Board of Directors.
“At Summit, we focus on partnering with
companies that have the team, technology
and vision to define the categories in
which they operate. We believe ProGlove’s
customer-centric approach to product design
presents a significant opportunity to empower
the human worker while increasing workplace
efficiency,” said Dr Matthias Allgaier,
Managing Director at Summit Partners, who
has also joined the ProGlove board.
“Our goal is to recognise and enable the value
of human involvement in today’s increasingly
automated industrial environment,” said
Thomas Kirchner, Co-founder and Vice
President Product at ProGlove.
“We’re excited to work with Summit to
expand our global reach and bring the
Industrial IoT to the human workforce on an
international scale.”
Everbridge, a global leader in critical event
management and enterprise safety software
applications to help keep people safe and
businesses running, has also recognised the
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The company has announced a partnership
with RiskBand, a leading provider of
wearable, live-monitored safety devices for
organisations and their workers. The alliance
is part of Everbridge’s strategy to reach the
broadest set of workers, including those
that may not always have ready access
to a mobile phone, such as a hospitality
employee, in-home healthcare provider, or
lone worker in the field. With the additional
modality and simple access of the RiskBand
wearable device, Everbridge is expanding its
addressable market for protecting employees
regardless of their physical location, whether
inside the office, working remotely, or
travelling the globe.
Critical events such as assaults and active
shooter incidents are threatening lives and
causing major business disruptions. Fatal
work injuries have increased over the last
decade, with 5,147 occupational fatalities
recorded in the US in 2017. This challenge
is only magnified by an increasingly mobile
workforce, as well as the prevalence of lone
worker scenarios across multiple industries
served by both Everbridge and RiskBand,
including healthcare, banking, retail, energy
and utilities, hospitality, and higher education.
Designed for enterprise-level personal
safety and security, RiskBand’s wearable
devices bolster an organisation’s emergency
communication and response strategy.
A single push of a button provides two-
way voice, user profile data, images and
geolocation, in near real-time to your
organisation’s security operations centre.
As part of the partnership, Everbridge
will integrate its award-winning Safety
Connection platform with RiskBand’s
wearables, allowing both Everbridge and
RiskBand customers to receive emergency
messaging and provide detailed reporting
of their location. The data from an
employee’s RiskBand device is shared back
to the Everbridge platform, allowing an
organisation to deploy the appropriate
emergency response.
“The rise in smart technology and connected
devices is drastically improving operations
for businesses across the globe and bringing
about new opportunities to keep people
safe,” said Imad Mouline, CTO of Everbridge.
RiskBand wearable device
“Our partnership with RiskBand is advancing
our existing connected safety ecosystem,
offering employees without immediate
access to a mobile phone with a direct line
for emergency communication that they can
utilise anywhere.”
As part of the expansion of that ecosystem,
Everbridge is looking to introduce additional
wearables into the marketplace and
integrate further with IoT devices, sensors
and smart building technology, all to better
protect employees from an increasing array
of workplace threats.
Imad Mouline, CTO of Everbridge
“It is especially gratifying that a respected
industry leader like Everbridge recognises
the powerful solution of the RiskBand
ARIES device and platform. We believe that
this collaborative partnership will enable
us to empower businesses to enhance
employee safety through state-of-the-art
wearable devices that are fully integrated
with the most comprehensive critical event
management solutions,” said Jim Van Law,
CEO and Co-founder of RiskBand. n
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