Company prides itself on solving problems that other companies didn’t even know existed.
David Savastano, Editor08.10.15
Smart fabrics and wearables are a developing market, as the ability to easily monitor conditions for everything ranging from people to any sort of equipment is a huge benefit. For BeBop Sensors, smart fabric applications can be said to be music to their years.
Keith McMillen, the company’s founder and CEO, started BeBop Sensors in 2014, indicating the idea for BeBop Sensors came out of McMillen’s music company, Keith McMillen Instruments, which focuses on creating and manufacturing electronic music instruments, including the QuNexus and QuNeo keyboards.
“All musical instruments are essentially sensors with forms of acoustic processing attached. BeBop is a natural step for KMI, where we have diligently tuned fabrics, geometries, and production processes allowing us to ship over two million sensors to some of the most demanding musicians in the world,” said McMillen.
“I wanted to make everything smaller, and we saw the
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