Nordic have news of a new cycling helmet with embedded nRF52 device, also used inside many beacons, that detects acceleration and in conjunction with an app, can send location and crash alerts.
While it’s an interesting and innovative product, most of the work is done by the app. There’s no reason why a generic acceleration sensor beacon couldn’t have been used within the helmet (or elsewhere). However, we guess including anything extra inside a helmet, in a safe manner, poses some challenges.
An insight from this is that there are probably many untapped opportunities for vertical sensor beacon type applications that predominantly make use of apps to provide for much of the functionality.