Epicore Biosystems, a digital health company developing advanced sweat-sensing wearables to provide real-time personalized hydration insights for performance and safety, has officially announced the launch of its latest product in Connected Hydration. According to certain reports, Connected Hydration appears on the scene as the world’s first ever sweat-sensing wearable patch 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 stated biowearable is made to particularly serve individuals working on the frontlines of physically intensive industries, including energy, construction, mining, utilities, agriculture, trucking and warehouse packaging, as well as military personnel. More on the device would reveal how Connected Hydration packs together a flexible wearable patch, a mobile application, and a cloud engine. Markedly, this mobile application, on its part, is available on the Apple App Store across North America, with a launch on Android’s Google Play Store scheduled to happen at some point in May 2024. Anyway, coming back to the device’s technological prowess, it offers an extended battery life of over 1,000 hours and never requires charging, something which instantly sets the device apart from most other wearables currently on the market. Next up, we must get into how Connected Hydration brings with it multiple biosensors for real-time detection of sweat and electrolyte loss, skin temperature, thermal flux, and for motion tracking. This it brings alongside a set of machine learning algorithms that are integrated across different hydration conditions and trained on 420,000 data points from the field.
“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.”
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in Connected Hydration’s ability to leverage haptic feedback and conceive for users real-time dehydration alerts. Hold on, there are still a few bits left to unpack, considering we still haven’t discussed the device’s efficiency when it comes to helping users track daily and longitudinal changes across all biometrics, all made possible through an intuitive and easy-to-navigate data dashboard. Then, we have the promise of a secure cloud engine, which we can avail through predictive analytics across work sites and regions. Rounding up highlights would be the device’s intrinsically safe design. As a result, the CLASS I, DIV 2 certified wearable can be expected to withstand hazardous environments.
The development in question delivers a rather interesting follow-up to some recent predictions that claim 2024 will be the hottest year in the world’s entire history. Apart from that, Connected Hydration also provides a fitting response to a different study where it was revealed how extreme heat and rising temperatures likely cause, on an average, more than 450,000 heat-related injuries per year. This, if left unattended, will impose upon us $500 billion worth of labor-related productivity costs by 2050. Furthermore, assuming the world becomes warmer by even 2 degrees Celsius, there is an expectation of 370% increase in yearly heat-related deaths, and a 50% increase in hours of labor lost due to heat exposure.
