Epicore Biosystems has announced the commercial launch of Connected Hydration. Connected Hydration is a sweat-sensing wearable patch and mobile app that equips workers with customized, real-time insights about sweat volume loss, electrolyte loss, body temperature and body movement to inform their hydration needs ahead of adverse dehydration events.
The biowearable is designed to protect individuals working on the frontlines of physically intensive industries including energy, construction, mining, utilities, agriculture, trucking and warehouse packaging, as well as military personnel, from dehydration, heat stress and heat-related injuries.
“The trajectory of extreme heat requires connected worker solutions that go far beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. As the world continues to warm at an alarming rate, there is an urgent need for technology that provides industrial workers access to their own hydration data and alerts them at the exact moment they’re at risk of dehydration,” said Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari, CEO and co-founder of Epicore Biosystems.
“Epicore is proud to fulfill that need with the commercial launch of Connected Hydration, which is already in use by thousands of workers worldwide to prevent dehydration and heat-related illness. As we continue establishing ourselves as a global leader in the hydration sector, worker safety remains one of our top priorities.”
Connected Hydration consists of a flexible wearable patch, a mobile application and a cloud engine. The mobile app is available in North America on the Apple App Store and will be available in the Google Play Android store with early partner availability in Australia, Singapore and Japan. Unlike most wearables on the market, Connected Hydration has an extended battery life of over 1,000 hours and never requires charging. Epicore offers a complimentary coin-cell battery swap service.
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Features
- Multiple biosensors for real-time sweat and electrolyte loss, skin temperature, thermal flux and motion tracking
- Machine learning algorithms incorporated across a variety of hydration conditions and trained on 420,000 data points from the field
- Real-time dehydration alerts and alarms via haptic feedback
- Fluid/electrolyte intake tracking via the Connected Hydration mobile app
- Data dashboard for tracking daily and longitudinal changes across biometrics
- Secure cloud engine with predictive analytics across work sites and regions
- Intrinsically safe design that can withstand hazardous environments (Class I, Division 2 certified)
Epicore recently completed its System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II compliance in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA), underscoring the company’s commitment to cloud data security and privacy for enterprise customers leveraging Connected Hydration.
