Respia – A wearable for asthmatics

Respia is a small smart health connected patch that could change the lives of many asthma sufferers around the world. Combined with its intelligent inhaler, this product represents a small revolution in the field.

Respia is a whole new way of designing asthma devices. In fact, the patch will act as a sensitive piezoacoustic monitoring to detect shortness of breath from wheezing or breathing-related inflammation.

This smart health connected product was born thanks to the work of Katherine Kawecki, a graduate of the University of New South Wales. Thanks to him, she obtained the second prize during of the James Dyson Awards. Katherine Kawecki’s device will allow the user to better use his inhaler. He will now be able to know precisely when he begins to have difficulty breathing. This small patch is washable, uses a silicone-based adhesive to hold on the chest.

Obviously, the system includes an application to view and monitoring reminders. The device connects to the phone via Bluetooth to track medication consumption. In short, everything is very well thought out. There's even a small recharging dock for recharging the inhaler and storing the patch.

With 300 million people suffering from asthma, Katherine Kawecki explains that the next steps in her project are to find funds to make her project a marketable product. Currently, it has 3D printed prototypes. "As an asthmatic myself, I wanted to create a better asthma management experience where the user could easily get involved and better understand their condition," she explains in her brief. "The portable patch makes the user aware if asthma symptoms worsen throughout the day through acoustic detection. "

Being myself asthmatic, I find the idea brilliant and I hope that a large-scale production will one day be possible.

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