Technology: Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (EQS-HBC)
Our groundbreaking discovery makes secure Electro-Quasistatic region usable for the first time
Communication using electromagnetic signals (e.g. Bluetooth) radiate throughout the airwaves making the physical signal available upto 10m radius. Our "body as a wire" technology uses patent pending techniques to reduce loss at Electro-Quasistatic frequencies to keep the physical signal within the human body to create a private channel.
Key Publication: D. Das, S. Maity, B. Chatterjee, and S. Sen, "Enabling Covert Body Area Network using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication," in Scientific Reports (Nature)- Feb 2019
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Wearkey's product?
Wearkey builds wearable contact tracing devices that accurately record who has been within 6-13ft of an infected patient, in the last 14 days.
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What can Wearkey do that other contact tracing devices cannot?
Contact tracing largely relies on Bluetooth. However, even the inventors of Bluetooth have concerns over using Bluetooth for contact tracing: LINK. Wearkey's "human body as an antenna and sensor" technology enables accurate contact tracing at 6-13ft distance.
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Is this technology safe?
Human Body Communication utilizes over 1000x times lower current than government recommended current safety limits and a safety study has been performed to show no impact on the human body over time. S. Maity et al., "On the Safety of Human Body Communication," in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Our Team
World's foremost group in secure communication for wearables
Shreyas Sen, PhD
Chief Technology OfficerInventor of EQS-HBC Assoc. Prof., Purdue U ex-Engg Intel, Qualcomm, Rambus MIT TR35 Winner, TEDx Speaker
Angik Sarkar, PhD
Chief Executive OfficerSerial Entrepreneur, 1X Exit Angel Investor, Advisor to Tech companies ex-Engg, Intel Bootstrapped to over $5M revenue
David Yang
Founding EngineerPhD Student (Human Body Communication) Entrepreneur Lead, NSF I-Corps
Wearkey
Contact Tracing with "Human Body as an Antenna" technology
2619 Yeoman Ct
West Lafayette, IN - 47906
founders@wearkey.co