RIT spinout HHI is looking for grant funding to commercialise a cardiovascular monitoring toilet seat intended for patients recovering from heart failure.
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has spun out a US-based business, Heart Health Intelligence (HHI), to develop cardiovascular monitoring technology that would be embedded into the toilet seats of patients.
HHI’s toilet seats contain three cardiological measurement devices: an electrocardiogram, photoplethysmogram and ballistocardiogram. They would be installed in the homes of recovering heart failure patients to monitor body mass, heart rate, blood pressure and blood oxygenation.
By applying algorithms to the data, HHI’s technology would be able to…
