
{"id":2821,"date":"2025-10-10T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa8kmjbsmwj.preview.infomaniak.website\/the-helios-smart-ring\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:47:09","slug":"the-helios-smart-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contecto.nl\/en\/the-helios-smart-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Helios Smart Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"font-alt fw700 balanced h4\"><span style=\"color: #00677f;\">Challenge<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The client identified a market need to track how much sunlight and daylight an individual received. To do this in a way that is barely noticeable and doesn&#8217;t disturb the user, it was decided to use a ring. The main challenge lay in the size of the ring, which had to house all the hardware. Contecto had to work with the smallest possible components to bring the idea to life.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"font-alt balanced\" style=\"width: auto;\">MARKET<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: auto;\">Health industry<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"font-alt balanced\" style=\"width: auto;\">END-PRODUCT<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: auto;\">A piece of jewellery in the form of a ring that measures UV radiation and daylight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"font-alt balanced\" style=\"width: auto;\">TECHNOLOGY<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: auto;\">C, Optical sensoring (UV &amp; Ambient light), Extremely small battery pack footprint, Bluetooth Low Energy, Wireless charging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"font-alt balanced\" style=\"width: auto;\">TECHNOLOGY\u00a0BLOCKS<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: auto;\">Functional Product, Product Development, Prototyping, Engineering, Production, Customer 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