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Lauren Egge has recently joined our team as Head of Strategy. Lauren has a rich history in running innovation programs with Fortune 500 companies which we know will translate well to helping our clients and portfolio companies to develop better product strategy. Fun fact - she's also the founder of NokaBox & was previously a client of ours. We're excited to have Lauren join our team.
We're proud to announce that Ovyl is now a Design Partner with Nordic Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in wireless technology for the IoT. We've used Nordic products in a number of low-power applications and we're excited to officially become a partner.
EYERIS developed a remarkably comfortable gel contact lens, and they wanted to bring their innovative product to market in a unique way. We were asked to develop a smart in-store display that could automatically re-stock gel contact lenses.
More on this project at ovyl.io/projects/eyeris
Many businesses pursue a fully automated wireless inventory process. We were able to develop a fully custom system for our client EYERIS, that uses RFID antennae to discern when a unit of gel contacts had been removed, and we paired it with a cellar system that is able to send data to the cloud for reordering.
More on this project at ovyl.io/projects/eyeris
Team Member Highlight: Mitch Meiss is one of our founders. Outside of his passion for seeing the success of the Oyvl team and clients, he loves spending time traveling with his wife and kids.
We believe that doing the right thing will work out in our favor in the long run even if it hurts a bit right now. Sometimes that pain can show that you're abiding by this rule. If you're unsure what's right in a situation, ask for someone else's opinion. Do the right thing.
The Eyeris system was designed to track contact lens cases using RFID. Each case has a unique RFID tag located inside, and within the display case is an RFID reader. Once RFID tag readings are collected the information is backhauled to a web server using a Cat-M1 Cellular module. A custom printed circuit board was developed that houses both the RFID reader and the cellular module. To create the display itself, we knew we had to rely on fairly high volume manufacturing processes for the contact's container, and medium volume methods for the display. We designed an elegant injection molded pods for the gel lenses and their dispensers, and a mostly thermoformed display housing to hold it all together.
