A Noida-based engineer couple Neha and Rahul Rastogi have made a portable ECG machine that looks like a car’s key fob at their lab called Agatsa. The device can provide a complete cardiac diagnosis anywhere, anytime. “Leadless means it is completely wireless; it uses sensor technology,” explains Neha.
Named SanketLife 2.0, the machine can provide a 12-lead medical-grade diagnosis, similar to what a hospital ECG machine provides. It traces 12 different electrical positions of the heart, thereby providing a complete diagnosis. “Such devices were available abroad, but not in India,” adds Neha.
Priced at $30, SanketLife 2.0 can be used by doctors and laypersons. It is driven by both Artificial Intelligence and IOT. Connecting via Bluetooth with Android and iPhone mobile phones, it enables live ECG waves to be available on the mobile phone screen. The ECG report shows real time display of information for on-the-spot checkups.
“It is truly an example of frugal innovation coming from India,” says Anil Kumar Gupta, professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and author of Grassroots Innovation: Minds on the Margin are not Marginal Minds. “To me it symbolizes the Indian urge to produce global products at extremely low cost without losing any of the efficiencies. This proves that a high tech product that matches global standards can be made out of India,”
