UNDP COVID-19 Detect/Protect Challenge
The Theia platform is comprised of a single Theia Smart Contactless Thermometer/Medical Sensor paired with a single Theia IoT LoRa Hub (although more thermometers can be easily added). This two-product platform offers both accurate on-the-ground monitoring, as well as a nation-wide observation using LoRa, without a reliance on traditional telecommunication networks (3G/4G, or even WiFi). The Theia platform effectively allows an exceptionally limited national health service to effectively triage the country, focusing their limited resources on areas where the upward changes in the median average temperature indicates a current viral bloom, offering a low-cost alternative to traditional ‘track & trace’ methods.
Future versions of this platform will include multiple types of medical sensors which will use the same IoT framework in order to build a viable real-time medical record in low-and-middle-income countries that have limited data and limited communication networks. Our goal is to direct a more limited national health service more intelligently in order to save lives.