SOLEPAD SYSTEM - Revolutionising In-Store Shoe Retailing and Delivering
Global Vital Footwear Analytics

SURREY, UK – November 2, 2015 - UK technology company R&D CORE is launching the SOLEPAD® SYSTEM, a market first, hi-tech, portable foot measuring and business analytics device, which enables footwear stores to deliver a dynamic one-to-one retailing experience and capture powerful, cloud based, business analytics information.

R&D CORE’s SOLEPAD® SYSTEM provides footwear retailers with a simple, fast way to capture customers’ foot length and width in a second together with date, time and scale used and other variables including the customer’s gender and contact information, boosting interaction with shoe fitters and sales assistants and making the shoe shopping experience enjoyable and engaging for adults and children. The system also captures vital, powerful, business analytics information, 24/7, enabling shoe shops to better understand the entire sales cycle across multiple stores, including why a customer didn’t buy and how each salesperson performs on the front line.  

The simple and smart app approach is designed to work on a multitude of smart devices, including smartwatches and enables store assistants and shoe fitters to store the details of the transaction to their smart device. Its super simplistic approach ensures that store personnel can be up and running within minutes, eliminating the need for timely, onsite training sessions and removing any downtime traditionally associated with a new technical retail device.

The SOLEPAD® technology can capture insightful, powerful data across multiple stores to help footwear retailers build a stronger business. When combined with SOLEPAD® cloud, all data is sent to the cloud to visualise the company’s performance and produce effective business analytics reports.

Thomas Papakostas, CEO at R&D CORE explains:

“The SOLEPAD® SYSTEM gives footwear retailers an opportunity to revolutionise the way they sell shoes in-store and more importantly to attract today’s tech-savvy shoe shoppers who are looking for exciting and interactive ways to shop.
 
Our technology gives retailers the chance to monitor the entire sales cycle even when there is no sale. Understanding why a customer is leaving empty handed empowers the retailer to address the issue. Its seamless cloud interface can give marketing teams and sales departments real time business monitoring and analytics information, 24/7, from any location. Never before has shoe retailing been so hi-tech and powerful.”

Designed and manufactured in the UK, the SOLEPAD® SYSTEM is available globally from November 2015 and comes in three different models SOLEPAD® Starter, SOLEPAD® PRO and SOLEPAD® ENTERPRISE.

For further information please contact R&D CORE at solepad@rndcore.com or telephone: Europe: +44 (0)20 81444600 USA: +1 (617) 997 0950


About R&D CORE Limited

R&D CORE is a financially independent, UK based, technology led start-up organisation specialising in the research, development and commercialization of innovative technologies that enhance human life. Fields of business specialty include: Ideation, advanced market research methods, solution space exploration, intellectual property development, rapid prototyping and development, technology commercialization.

Established in June 2011 and headquartered in Leatherhead, Surrey, R&D CORE focuses on undertaking confidential, ground breaking projects, internally or externally funded. Internally funded projects that fuel the company’s innovation engine include the DRAS® Sensor Technology enabling the creation of large, flexible, multi-contact touchscreens. Additional products include the DRAS® Phone, a truly foldable smartphone, SOLEPAD® SYSTEM a revolutionary foot measuring and business analytics device for shoe retailers and ATLAS an innovative anti-theft bike stand. Further information on R&D CORE is available at: www.rndcore.com

R&D CORE launches a fully flexible touch screen sensor technology with Plastic Logic's flexible display

SURREY, UK – December 2, 2014 – UK technology start-up R&D CORE specialising in the research, development and commercialization of innovative technologies that enhance human life has collaborated with Plastic Logic, an expert in the field of plastic electronics, to further develop and finalise a flexible touch screen sensor technology with a flexible display, delivering a truly flexible touch screen display solution. 

Digital Resistive Area Sensing (DRAS®) technology key facts:

• The sensor is placed behind the flexible display: there is no impact on the display's optical performance!
• Ideal for next-generation, flexible display devices and wearable electronics
• Truly flexible, rollable
• Multi-touch
• Finger force sensing
• Not affected by humidity or temperature swings
• No calibration required
• Virtually borderless
• Extremely thin
• Consumes very little power

“The UK is innovating and leading the way in developing and producing truly flexible displays and fully flexible touch screen solutions”, said Thomas Papakostas, CEO at R&D CORE Limited.  “This collaboration has enabled us to further push the boundaries and deliver a truly flexible touch screen enabled display. Our patented Digital Resistive Area Sensing (DRAS®) technology, a multi-touch sensing technology for next-generation devices, addresses all of the new demands and emerges as the winning solution for the new breed of portable devices with flexible displays. The sensor overcomes capacitive touch screen limitations including breakage, accidental use, moisture and an inability to operate when wearing insulating materials such as gloves.  Our collaboration will enable manufacturers from around the world to finally have access to a truly flexible touch screen display technology for use in a range of next-generation devices.”

The DRAS® technology delivers greater functionality and control to overcome the many limitations of today’s smart phone and tablet capacitive touch screens including true flexibility, finger force sensing, accidental use and expensive integration.  Its ability to work with gloves brings a huge advantage for outdoor use, especially in cold environments and in use with wearable devices such as smartwatches. The sensor can be made as large as the application requires, from large scale flexible TV’s to extensive wall size displays, without increasing the complexity of the hardware interface and without compromising the sensor performance.

DRAS® technology development kits are available, under license, and include hardware, software and sensors.

For further information contact solutions@rndcore.com or telephone:  Europe: + 44 (0) 208-144-4600 USA: +1 (617) 997 0950.


About R&D CORE Limited

R&D CORE is a financially independent, UK based, technology led, start-up organisation specialising in the research, development and commercialization of innovative technologies that enhance human life. Fields of business specialty include: Ideation, advanced market research methods, solution space exploration, intellectual property development, rapid prototyping and development, technology commercialization.

Established in June 2011 and headquartered in Leatherhead, Surrey, R&D CORE focuses on undertaking confidential, ground breaking projects, internally or externally funded. Internally funded projects that fuel the company’s innovation engine include the DRAS® Sensor Technology enabling the creation of large, flexible, multi-contact touchscreens. Additional products include the SOLEPAD™ SYSTEM a revolutionary foot measuring and business analytics technology for shoe retailers and ATLAS an innovative anti-theft bike stand. Further information on R&D CORE is available at: www.rndcore.com