Table 2.
Details of smart footwear available in the market [14].
| Smart Footwear (Name of the Company) | Applications | Type of Sensor (No. of Sensors Used) |
Pressure (kPa) | IE | MDAR (Hz) | DTT | BA (Hrs.) |
Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WIISEL | Continuous gait monitoring, analysis & fall risk assessment | Piezoresistive (14) | 350 | Yes | 33.3 | BLE | 16 | — |
| Pedar (Novel) |
Footwear design and injury prevention |
Pressure (99) | 600 | No | 100 | BT | 1 | 15,540 € |
| F-Scan (Tekscan) |
Gait analysis & biomechanics, diabetic offloading, sports medicine |
Pressure (960) | 862 | No | 165 | USB, Wi-fi |
0.2 | 16,000 $ |
| BioFoot (IBV) | Sports gait analysis, footwear design | Pressure (64) | 1200 | No | 500 | Wi-Fi | 1 | 12,995 € |
| paroLogg /parotec (paromed) |
Foot pressure analysis |
Pressure (32), Inertial | 625 | No | 300 | Wi-fi | 1.5 | — |
| Foot Pres- sure MS (Medilogic) |
Gait, sports, health prevention, prosthesis and orthotics, diabetics | Solid State Relay (SSR) sensors (240) | 640 | No | 300 | Wireless | — | — |
| Smart Step | Rehabilitation process | — | — | No | — | Card | — | 6000 $ |
| Smart Insoles (24 eight, LLC) |
Medical, sports, and gaming | Pressure (4), Inertial |
241 | Yes | — | Wireless | 100 | — |
| OpenGo science (Moticon) |
Medical & sports science, Rehabilitation & training analysis | Pressure (13), Inertial |
400 | Yes | 100 | Wireless | — | 2000 $ |
| Footswitches Insole (B & L Engineering) |
Gait analysis | Pressure sensors (4) |
— | No | — | Wireless | — | 9000 $ |
IE—Integrated Electronics, MDAR—Maximum Data Acquisition Rate, DTT—Data Transfer Type, BA—Battery Autonomy.