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CovidBand+

 
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Project Overview

Covid19 has caused havoc and we started looking for a solution. We brainstormed, got inputs from Health experts and designed CovidBand+. This band can monitor vitals for Covid19 symptoms and uses proprietary algorithms to assess health conditions and risk.

Organisation

innoWear

Project Context

Team: The team consists of data science experts from John Hopkins, IISC -Bangalore, Doctors, Engineers and Entrepreneurs with experience in successfully building multiple products with innoWear, Fitbit, Nike Fuelband and Motorola. Patents have been filed last week and architecture is ready.

Design: We follow Dieter Ram's '10 Principals of Good design' to keep it minimalist. We prefer to use lines and circles where ever possible. You can see that from our existing products.

Timeline - best case we should have the product ready to be deployed in 6 months. We have existing product that need to be modified to add a couple of sensors and build algorithms.

Project Innovation

Covid19 is here. We expect to get over soon, but need to monitor vitals will remain for foreseeable future.

We are using technology to design solutions.

Design Challenge

Market needs and timing are the biggest challenge. We need ed this product yesterday. So running against the time. World lock-down is not helping but a team of dedicated designers & Engineers trying to solve this.

User Experience

We are using existing platforms and materials to develop the product. In future we will be using local and recyclable products where ever possible.




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