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ikael Eriksson is the CEO of Skugga Technology AB and one of PORTRAIT OF A DESIGNER

four founders who started the Stockholm-based smart technology

company Skugga in 2015. The company’s leadership team consists of

Mikael and three other founders: Mikael’s brothers Daniel Eriksson,

MCOO, and Jonas Eriksson, CTO (chief technology officer), and their

partner Fredrik Hanson, CFO.

All of the founders began their to fit high-fashion eyewear of all frame

entrepreneurial journey 20 years ago types and materials, regardless of brand,

at KTH Royal Institute of Technology style, colour or shape. This includes

in Stockholm, and all of them have an acetate, 3D-printed polymer and injection

engineering background. The group started plastic frames.

as a design consultancy, running Top Skugga Technology can make any eyewear

Notch Design AB – a Swedish design and smart. Mikael explains, “By partnering

engineering agency – for 15 years, focusing with the eyewear industry we’re leaving

on advanced product development, the design to the fashion and eyewear

product design, mechanical engineering, industry. We’re focused on adding our

mechatronics, production optimization, smart technology to existing eyewear

and IoT (Internet of Things). The Internet products. By doing this, we’re solving one

of Things describes the collective network of the main barriers to mass acceptance

of connected devices and the technology of smart glasses, the style and fashion

that facilitates communication between factor, thereby paving the way to making

devices and the cloud, as well as between smart glasses readily available to the

the devices themselves. broader public.” By leaving the choice

Leaving the eyewear design component to of brand and style of eyewear frames to

the existing fashion and eyewear industry wearers, Skugga is tapping into the existing

has allowed Skugga to focus its efforts behaviour of end-users.

on innovative technology designed to Their smart technology uses 16 sensors

propel the industry forward and raise the to collect and measure personal and

technology bar. Skugga’s early involvement environmental data to enable wearers to

in IoT was a portent of things to come – make choices in real-time that can improve

smart, wearable, miniaturized technology various aspects of their life. The software

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