A wearable hydration sensor
A healthy human body controls its water content to an amazing 1% precision. This makes sense when we think of ourselves as wet chemical machines. A new type of wristband monitor using Bluetooth-like waves can sense dangerous deviations from this norm in our growing population of elderly citizens, military personnel, and sports participants to name a few. This project initially targets medical use in the elderly for which there are 100 million potential users in the US and EU today, doubling by 2030.
Name & Contact
Team Hydration (a.k.a. Team Splash);
hydration@mit.edu
@splashhydration, www.splashhydration.com, hydration.mit.edu
Project status
M+Visión project Jan 2014 – Sep 2015
Sector
Health & fitness monitoring. Elderly care. Mobile devices. Occupational health..
Fellows
Ian Butterworth, Luca Giancardo, Carlos Sánchez Mendoza
Collaborators
Luca Daniel, Ruonan Han
MIT
Maria Luaces, Javier Martin Sanchez
HCSC
Students
Jose E Cruz Seralles (MIT),
Disclosures
HydraBand: A Wearable Wireless System and Method For Detection of Relative Changes in State of Hydration (MIT 16926)
Hydration Measurement System (updated MIT 16926)
Patents
Hydration Measurement System (MIT 16926)
United States of America Serial No. 62/111922, Filed February 4, 2015
MassChallenge 2014 – semi-finalist
MIT 100k accelerate 2015 – semi-finalist
IDEO Design-a-thon – Initiative Prize
Media and updates
In May 2014, Team Hydration (aka Splash) was a semi-finalist in the Mass Challenge 2014 Accelerator Program. Read more+
In October 2014, Team Hydration (aka Splash) won the Initiave Prize at the IDEO Design- a-thon conferences (IEEE-HIPCOT In Seattle). Read more+