How did we get here?
25 Years of Innovation
At Altec, we’re working to translate innovative concepts into human sensing technologies that advance health science, operational security, and human performance.
1997
Altec Founded
Altec, Inc. was founded by Dr. Carlo J. De Luca to research next-generation technologies for applications of health and human performance
2000
EMGworks Software
For over 20 years, EMGWorks provided an ever-evolving software platform for visualizing and processing muscle physiology data for health and human performance.
Product: EMGworks Acquisiton
Funding: US Army
2003
Myomonitor
Before smartphones and mobile health apps, the myomonitor enabled some of the first studies of muscle physiology that extended beyond the lab and into activities of daily living.
Patent: US 6,440,067
Funding: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)
2008
dEMG System
For decades, the final common pathway of neural control of movement, i.e., the motor unit, could only be interrogated with the use of invasive recording electrodes. The dEMG System (short for decomposition-EMG) became one of the first technologies to break the status quo, and provide unfettered access to motor units from the surface of the skin.
Science: Decomposition of surface EMG signals
Funding: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
2012
Trigno Personal Monitor
The Trigno Personal Monitor delivered edge capabilities for monitoring human performance during some of the most remote in field applications that included downhill skiing and tactical training operations.
Funding: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
2015
Avanti Wireless EMG Sensors
Designed to take your research anywhere, Avanti wireless sensors solved the challenges of motion artifacts and electronic interference to deliver physiological outcomes for biomechanics, athletics and rehabilitation with uncompromising fidelity.
Patent: US 9,351,660
Funding: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
2018
Mobile Software Platform
Developed with support from the NIH to monitor movement disorders in individuals with Parkinson’s Disease, the mobile system combined clinical-grade sensing with the convenience of mobile devices to enable a new wave of ecologically valid research in health and human performance.
Product: Trigno Mobile System
Funding: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
2020
Sensors for Speech and Voice
With their miniaturized form-factor and precision sensing abilities, our facial sensor provided an optimal modality for demystifying the complex motor patterns for regulating speech.
Science: Development of sEMG sensors and algorithms for silent speech recognition
Funding: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
2024
25 years of innovation and we are just getting started…
Our latest technologies are some of the most exciting, propelling us in new directions in computer vision, mixed reality, speech and voice analytics, physiological monitoring and neural interfaces.
Disclaimer: Research reported in this timeline was supported by Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, and other agencies of U.S. Government. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Government
