"The winners’ ideas and products show impressively how broad the application opportunities for our industries are," Hecker said. "The OE-A Competition motivates companies to think outside the box. This provides new impulses for the technological development of printed electronics as well as product design and shows users which products and concepts are in the pipeline."
The award ceremony for the "OE-A Competition 2021" will take place online this year on April 15, 2021. The winner of the "Public Choice Award" as well as the price winners of the three categories will then present their demonstrators.
Best Prototype / New Product
OccluSense®– Dental Pressure Measuring System
InnovationLab (Germany)
The project offers a digital solution for occlusion control with medical certification. It measures, visualizes, and stores the pressure distribution during the bite process. The printed pressure sensor matrix with more than 1000 pixels registers the pressure applied on each pixel with up to 150 Hz and sends the information wirelessly to a cloud, a tablet or other devices.
Best Freestyle Demonstrator
Dose-counting Smart Label for Inhalers
Fleep Tech (Italy)
The demonstrator features a counting smart label for metered dose inhalers. The smart label, realized on a flexible substrate, integrates a fully printed OTFT based control and driving electronics as well as a fully printed battery, a touch sensor and a commercially available electrophoretic segmented display.
Best Publicly Funded Project Demonstrator
SUPERSMART Anti Counterfeiting Label
Fraunhofer & Partner (Germany)
The demonstrator consists of two paper-based demonstrators realized in the frame of the SUPERSMART project. A shock detection active tag based on a piezo material to track product damage during transport and an anti-counterfeiting label relying on an electrochromic display to authenticate medical or luxury products.
Public Choice Award
S-Console Smart Gear Selector
Centi (Portugal)
The Smart Gear Selector demonstrator is an intelligent control panel for an automatic transmission. Printed electronics enables the reduction of the number of mechanical and electrical parts to seamless design.