04-11-2015, 12:23 PM
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Cloud DX
Kitchener startup aims to turn science fiction into science fact
Waterloo Region Record
By Terry Pender
KITCHENER — ....
Justin Pedro oversees a small team of developers in the Tannery building in downtown Kitchener who are working on a mobile device that diagnoses many medical conditions. Their company — Cloud DX — is the only Canadian firm in the finals of a $10-million competition to create a device akin to the tricorder seen on "Star Trek."
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize is a worldwide contest to spark innovation and integration of diagnostic technologies that will enable people to make their own reliable health diagnoses at home.
Cloud DX has developed a high-tech necklace that collects vital signs and other health data. It sends the information to servers in the cloud where its algorithms parse the data and make a diagnosis.
This integrated system of hardware, software and firmware is called the Vitaliti platform — a combination of mobile sensing and cloud-based diagnostics.
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http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5552...ence-fact/
Kitchener startup aims to turn science fiction into science fact
Waterloo Region Record
By Terry Pender
KITCHENER — ....
Justin Pedro oversees a small team of developers in the Tannery building in downtown Kitchener who are working on a mobile device that diagnoses many medical conditions. Their company — Cloud DX — is the only Canadian firm in the finals of a $10-million competition to create a device akin to the tricorder seen on "Star Trek."
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize is a worldwide contest to spark innovation and integration of diagnostic technologies that will enable people to make their own reliable health diagnoses at home.
Cloud DX has developed a high-tech necklace that collects vital signs and other health data. It sends the information to servers in the cloud where its algorithms parse the data and make a diagnosis.
This integrated system of hardware, software and firmware is called the Vitaliti platform — a combination of mobile sensing and cloud-based diagnostics.
....
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5552...ence-fact/