Lecture Novalia

11-11-2009
Novalia


Company

Foundation: Founded in 2004 Novalia has considerable experience in the growing printed electronics industry.

Skills:
They have a wonderful mix of technical, scientific, artistic and design skills within our company, and believe this is the recipe for great new products.

Finance:
Novalia's unique vision of printed electronics, patent pending technology and strong industrial links helped secure venture funding from London based Solon Ventures.

Location:
Cambridge Science Park, UK.

Printed Electronics

Interactive Printed Media:
In their vision of printed electronics any printed
item can be interactive. We call this ‘Interactive
Printed Media’.

Conductive inks:
Conductive inks enable touch sensitive input and light/sound output. Using our artistic skills they seamlessly weave conductive and graphic inks into the printed image.

Conventional printing:
Using their knowledge of conventional printing they show you how to integrate conductive inks with our existing print process. Alternatively, manufacture can be sourced through their partners who specialise in print electronics.

Novalia's Product

Control module:
Novalia's have developed and supply a ‘printed electronics control module’; this self contained unit consists of a power source, integrated circuit (I/O control and interaction flow), and sound transducer.

Integration:
The module is very simple to integrate with the printed item, in fact it’s almost as easy as putting a stamp on an envelope (but for now it’s not quite
as thin).

Senses:
The integration of the module and the conductive inks enables the printed item and the user to communicate through the senses of touch, sight and sound.

Communication:
IPM enables communication between the printed item and the user, the direction the dialogue takes depends on each experience, essentially ‘what you get out depends on what you put in’.