Gesture-Controlled Light Switch with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

COVID-19-safe controller: switch lamps and other devices on and off by using gestures instead of pressing buttons (on a remote control).

At the electronics production trade show productronica 2019 held in Munich in the second week of November, Elektor interviewed Andreas a.k.a. Andy Zueger from electronic component distributor Distrelec.

At productronica 2019, which has just come to an end, 8 start-ups competed in a neck-and-neck race for the coveted Fast Forward Award, organized by Messe München and Elektor. Here are the winners!

The Elektor Start-Up Challenge 2019 provided an opportunity for French start-ups to showcase their technologies and compete for international recognition.

After two great successes on the electronica trade show, Messe Munich and Elektor are proud to present the latest Edition of their Global Start-up Event: productronica Fast Forward - the start-up platform powered by Elektor.

The short and firm byline of this year’s productronica trade exhibition in Munich is “Accelerating Innovation”, so apart from the Bierstuben there’s no better place to go than the Elektor / productronica 2019 Fast Forward Award (FFA, Hall B2 Booth 472) event.

In 2018 Teiimo, a Munich based start-up, won the prestigious Elektor “FastForward”-Award at electronica 2018. The company’s products improve people's quality of life. Teiimo designs conformable textile-integrated solutions for capturing and transmitting biometric data in real-time and via Cloud. The novel technology is fully compatible with standard textile manufacturing techniques. After a start in sport, the company expanded in B2B market segments during last year. Elektor Industry Magazine spoke with CEO & Founder Markus Strecker about his strategy and technology as well as opportunities.

Electrical power densities keep on increasing: smaller devices with higher powers and capabilities. This trend can be seen everywhere in our daily life, ranging from smartphones, electric transportation to elegant household devices. This demand requests a lot of effort to improve the system efficiency, heat extraction and … improved manufacturing methods…

Are you involved in the development and production of electronics? Do you want to successfully place your product on the market and are you looking for suitable partners? Then you should be interested in productronica Fast Forward, the start-up platform powered by Elektor which is ready to offer you energetic support!

In anticipation of the Fast Forward contest staged for the 'productronica' trade show in Munich this November, the Fast Forward Start-Up Guide is available now as a free download. At the second edition of electronica Fast Forward, the Start-Up Platform powered by Elektor, no fewer than 32 participants from 10 countries presented innovations in the Prototype and Start-up categories. If you missed that event, you can read all about it in the guide.