A wearable device that aims at automatically providing relief and
summoning medical help for victims who are left unattended after serious
automobile accidents has been developed by a student in Uttar Pradesh.
Seventeen-year-old
Akshat Prakash, who studies in Class 12 in Delhi Public School,
Indirapuram, on the outskirts of Delhi, has named his invention
‘HelixSafe’ and presented it at the Taiwan International Science Fair,
2015. The device uses heartbeat variance as the key indicator to
auto-detect grave injury during automobile accidents and auto- injects
medicine to prolong the victim’s survival while informing the nearest
medical facility for help. It provides life-prolonging support to
accident victims as they wait for help to reach them, he explained.
Akshat filed a patent in 2013 in India for ‘HelixSafe’ and the patent has been published in the
Official Patent Journal
, 2015.
“I am deeply interested in pursuing a life-long research
career in Computer Science. I aspire to create a cleaner, healthier and
safer society by applying Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Devices
and Big Data Analytics to real-world solutions,” he said. The prototype
has been created with Arduino Development Environment, Heart Rate Sensor
and accessories and programmed in Embedded C and Visual Basic.
Akshat
has won ‘India’s First Whiz Kid’ award for Best Innovation, 2013, for
the device. The award is given by Nurture Talent & Computer Society
of India.
“I presented HelixSafe at the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Delhi and IIT-Mumbai,” a beaming Akshat said, adding
that people from all walks of life have evinced an interest in his
device wherever he has displayed it. — PTI
The wearable device provides life-prolonging support to fatal automobile accident victims as they wait for help to reach them
The wearable device provides life-prolonging support to automobile accident victims as they wait for help to reach them
Source :- The Hindu, 18-Dec-2015
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