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Preventing hydration-related illness through sensor based technology and products.
FOUNDER
Rebecca Taylor
INDUSTRY
Digital Health
WEBSITE
Poor fluid balance monitoring (the control of water levels within the body) is a problem that costs the NHS and private care facilities over a billion pounds per year within the UK. The current system is reliant on nurses verbally asking patients how much they’ve had to drink, or guesstimating this based on water displacement. Unsurprisingly this is highly inaccurate, time consuming and has detrimental effects on patient care.
Aquarate founder Rebecca Taylor came to Nova having extensively researched this area for her final year University project. She knew that there was a better way to do this, and believed the solution could be achieved through sensor based technology.
Together we’ve been able to create and validate the early product concepts with medical professionals and patients within care settings, gaining valuable feedback that’s shaped the design of our market ready products. Through multiple iterations, utilising rapid prototyping, and multiple interviews, focus groups and user feedback sessions we’ve been able to deliver a product set that delivers value and has buy-in from stakeholders throughout the purchase chain.
Having established mass production costs, supply chain partners, relationships and trials with purchasing decision makers. Aquarate is now in a strong position to disrupt a growing and outdated problem.
Rebecca Taylor, founder of Aquarate