Match Connect Health announces winning startup

Evaluation committee chose the air and water quality monitoring solution presented by AR Inovações Tecnológicas, from Tocantins

With a solution for monitoring air and water quality in environments such as hospitals and clinics, the startup AR Inovações Tecnológicas, from Palmas, Tocantins, was the winner of Match Connect Saúde, a program conducted by CPQD, Bosch and Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic with the support of Baita Accelerator. Five startups, which participated in the pre-acceleration phase of the program, presented their minimum viable product (MVP) projects to the evaluation committee, which chose the winning solution.

“More than the final result, it is important to emphasize that it was a very rich journey for everyone involved in this initiative”, says Maurício Casotti, manager of Business Development in Smart Cities and Health 4.0 at CPQD. “The feedback from startups that the program opened some doors, helped to improve their business models or their vision of the market, for example, was an award for us, partners in Match Connect Saúde”, he adds.

Created with the objective of stimulating the development of innovative solutions for real problems in the health area, the program was divided into stages and relied on technological resources provided by CPQD and Bosch, in addition to technical mentoring sessions, with health specialists from the Faculty São Leopoldo Mandic, and business, with Baita Acceleradora. In the pre-acceleration phase, the MVPs developed by the five startups were tested and validated in a real external environment, provided by São Leopoldo Mandic.

“It was an exceptional program for us startups, who had the opportunity to work together with the Bosch engineering area, the CPQD staff, receive mentorship from Baita and even test the MVP in a real physical space”, emphasizes Alex Martins , founder and technical manager of AR Technological Innovations. In his presentation to the evaluation committee, he recalled that poor water or air quality is one of the factors responsible for the cases of nosocomial infection that affect many of the hospitalizations in the country.

AR Inovações Tecnológicas' solution meets one of the recommendations of the World Health Organization to face this challenge: the monitoring of air and water quality, through an application of Internet das Coisas (IoT)🇧🇷 The technologies used for this were an NB-IoT board and the open platform dojot, developed by CPQD and used in the analysis and processing of information. According to Martins, the MVP was tested in a dental environment, monitoring data in temreal po in two units of Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic located in Brasília and Curitiba. The startup's next step is to integrate the Artificial Intelligence platform (PlatIA), also developed by CPQD, into the solution.

The other startups that participated in the pre-acceleration phase of Match Connect Saúde were GeneS, Salutho, Siklee and wconnect. These were the proposals presented at the Demo Day held on June 7:

• GeneS – Project G-Mask, a mask based on nanotechnology with UV protection and 99% efficiency against infections

• Salutho – Mobile platform for electronic medical records, medication delivery and medical assistance

• Siklee – Medical certificate management platform for companies, using PlatIA in the analysis of predictive models and employee absenteeism patterns

• wconnect – Mobile application connected to wearable devices for monitoring heart rate, sleep quality, among other data, with the possibility of integration with Simples ID, a digital health card based on blockchain, and data sharing with the physician.

The winning startup of Match Connect Saúde will have technological resources at its disposal – such as CPQD’s AIoT (AI and IoT) platform – to continue the evolution of its MVP and will also be evaluated for entry into the Hub Mandic acceleration program.