A Bluetooth Sensor Platform for faster product development and lower costs

Eindhoven-based Vention designs and builds embedded products by writing custom algorithms that run on custom-built electronics, often featuring wireless connectivity and sensor technology.

Wockel is the result of the experience Vention gathered in years of developing sensor-enhanced products for their customers.

By bringing together sensors, battery management, a microcontroller, and Bluetooth
communication in one place and linking it to a customized application, the Wockel enables
developers to almost immediately start collecting data for the validation of their product. After that, the knowledge gained can be combined with the Wockel platform to be incorporated into the final product.

A prime example of Wockel, a bluetooth enabled, motion sensing wearable that detects Freeze
of Gait symptoms with Parkinson's patients and triggers a cue to snap them out of the freeze,
was developed by Cue2Walk and Vention. Using the Wockel platform, Cue2Walk was able to
start testing with their demonstrator products in a few weeks. Additional actuators were easily added on the extension interface of the Wockel and additional application code and the
algorithms of Cue2Walk were implemented. In the development of the final product all these
components are integrated to create a fully custom product.