KIRKLAND, Wash. – (September 2, 2025) – i1 Biometrics, a leading sports information and wearable technology company that has developed the Vector MouthGuard with ESP Chip Technology, announces it has partnered with Mount Zion High School in Illinois for use of the Vector MouthGuard. Mount Zion has outfitted its football players with i1 Biometrics’ Vector MouthGuards with ESP Chip Technology to measure the linear and rotational accelerations of head impacts during practice and games.
Over the last few years, high schools, colleges, and the broader sports industry has placed a larger emphasis on better understanding head impact and concussions stemming from on-field activities. i1 Biometrics is working with Mount Zion players, coaches and athletic trainers this season to monitor and measure how football players absorb head impacts during practice and games.
“The Vector MouthGuard with ESP Chip Technology is engineered to reduce the guesswork so that coaches and trainers have accurate and timely data to help make proper decisions for their student athletes,” said Jesse Harper, CEO of i1 Biometrics. “The Vector reduces the struggle faced by coaches and trainers today. Knowing the severity and location of head impact on the field of play is vital resource for coaches, players, and athletic trainers alike.”
The Vector MouthGuard makes an accurate, real-time reading of head impact, and the ESP Chip Technology helps translate immediate data to a handheld device used by trainers on the sidelines. The data can show the magnitude and location of the impact, which can assist in proper decision-making by the medical staff should they decide to remove the player from the field of play for further evaluation.
"After many years of research about impact sensors and trying many different varieties I feel that a mouthguard based system is the best design for many different reasons,” noted Dustin Fink, certified athletic trainer for Mount Zion, who is the first school in Illinois to implement the Vector System. "Both Coach Popovich and I strive for the best ways to make player safety a priority and are very excited about the real-time reporting along with the possible use for behavior modification and tackling technique coaching when looking at the impact points on the head."
Fink, who also curates The Concussion Blog, added “most importantly, the Vector MouthGuard can be used in any helmet model and does not void any NOCSAE warranties as it is not affixed to the helmet."
According to CBS News, all football players including high schoolers have a seventy-five-percent chance of suffering a concussion. Between 136,000 and 300,000 sustain one each year. Thirty-Four percent of college players have suffered a concussion and twenty percent have had more than one.
About i1 Biometrics: Headquartered in Kirkland, Wash., i1 Biometrics is a leading information and technology company that has developed the world’s first mouth guard to accurately measure the linear and rotational accelerations of head impacts during sports and training activities. i1 Biometrics’ Vector MouthGuard utilizes ESP Chip Technology that provides real-time data to anticipate how an athlete absorbs impact during in-game play to maximize training and performance. Leveraging the $14 billion wearable tech industry, i1 Biometrics helps trainers realize measureable results from performance analytics to shape forward-looking training programs and individualized athlete-conditioning environments in a variety of team contact sports. For more information, visit i1biometrics.com
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