ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SMART EAR PROTECTION
The Eave FocusLite
Industry-leading technology enables the FocusLite to detect and report noise levels as well as protecting against hearing damage.
The world’s only hearing protection with built in fit-testing.
The UK spends more than £30 bn per year on hearing loss.
Award-winning noise and hearing conservation organisation, Eave, launch the industry’s most advanced smart ear protection: the FocusLite. The only hearing protection available with built-in noise reporting technology, the FocusLite will work in conjunction with Eave’s hearing conservation platform, Peak, enabling businesses to ‘fit-test’ their working environment, reducing hearing loss for employees and avoiding industrial negligence allegations.
Every year the UK spends hundreds of millions of pounds on occupational deafness insurance claims. Protection is available, but is often abandoned due to its limitations as colleagues struggle to communicate. And in some cases, businesses just aren’t aware of the extent of the noise on their premises – Illegal, inexcusable, but also, perhaps understandable. Eave’s FocusLite has been designed to answer all of these problems.
How the FocusLite is Different
While providing high quality hearing protection, the FocusLite does something more. The FocusLite can record noise levels in the workplace. With microphones built in to the ear guards, the FocusLite digitises the sound levels and automatically reports back using Eave’s award-winning hearing conservation platform, Peak. This allows business managers to understand where on their premises harmful noise levels may be an issue and take steps to reduce noise or provide protective equipment for additional departments and team members.
At the same time, the FocusLite employs industry-leading ‘hear-through’ technology. This removes the isolation of passive ear defenders and filters through sound at a safe level, allowing users to communicate comfortably and clearly while maintaining environmental awareness.
‘We are really excited about the FocusLite. It’s the second Peak-compatible product we’ve released, and we think that it could be a real game-changer. Not just for businesses, but for individuals worried about regular exposure to high levels of noise.
‘We often undervalue our hearing – until we begin to lose it. Then we realise just how integral it is to life. Not just in terms of convenience, but in terms of community and belonging. Not being able to hear is incredibly isolating. People joke about deafness, but it’s really no laughing matter.
‘Hearing loss costs the UK over £30 billion per year. Much of that hearing loss is preventable. Our aim at Eave is to stop preventable deafness.’
Eave founder and CEO, Dr. David Greenberg.
The Launch
The FocusLite launch was last week with leading industry speakers, the perfect opportunity to get ears-on experience of this cutting-edge new smart ear protection – photos of the event can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eohcw47fjff1unw/AACndvqn6MS6QTgNqprA6vRea?dl=0
About Eave
Eave is an organisation created to help with the prevention of avoidable deafness through the monitoring of, and protection against damaging noise levels. Founded by clinical and research audiologist, Dr. David Greenberg, Eave’s mission is to prevent occupational hearing loss, while raising awareness of the isolating – and sometimes debilitating – impact of deafness.