Frost & Sullivan's Product Leadership Award honours Shimmer for its highly flexible wireless sensor platform

LONDON, ENGLAND: Based on its recent analysis of the wireless sensors market, Frost & Sullivan announced that they have awarded Shimmer with the 2013 European Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership Award for its highly flexible wireless sensor platform, 'Shimmer'. This platform enables real-time data capture and communication and acts as a primary board into which various sensor cards can be incorporated. Thereby, it facilitates comprehensive wireless sensing applications that efficiently address biophysical, motion, and environmental-sensing needs.

"Shimmer's flexible and customizable platform allows for the rapid development of a solution that can be tailored at every step of the process without lengthy and costly hardware and application development," said Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst, Aravind Seshagiri. "This, coupled with the company's in-depth industry experience of delivering wearable sensing solutions, is a significant value addition."

Shimmer is an end-to-end wearable technologies service and wireless sensor platform manufacturer, whose products effectively address key challenges related to size, wearability and dependability in terms of communication and low power consumption.

"Shimmer also provides drivers for integration with leading-edge industry tools, such as LabVIEW, MATLAB, and Android OS, in an effort to ensure that users can leverage the latest industry features, tools, and technologies in its application development," observed Seshagiri.

Frost & Sullivan research shows that the Shimmer platform speeds up the time-to-market and reliable deployment for end users, thus reducing both risk and cost associated with new product launches.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents its Product Leadership Awards to companies that are outstanding within their industries - leading their industries based upon Frost & Sullivan's criteria of excellence.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product development. According to Frost & Sullivan, Shimmer has distinguished itself through its proactive strategies that position it as an industry leader.