rtificial intelligence is the
future and it aims at making
human life easier. With this view,
a Delhi-based start-up VISIT was
launched in 2016 which is an on-
demand healthcare service online
platform that provides its users
a pool of medical specialists and
general physicians to choose from,
for consultation. The facility has an
artificial intelligence based ‘chatbot’
that acts as a digital assistant to
SNORE CIRCLE
VISIT: AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE START-UP
A
A
China–based
firm
VVFLY
Electronics has developed
a smart anti-snoring eye mask
called Snore Circle priced at nearly
INR 9700. Snore Circle is a smart
wearable sleeping mask that comes
with a little module that uses sound
detection and bone conduction
to identify when one is snoring.
Once that is done, it sends out little
vibrations to trick one’s brain into
tightening one’s throat muscles.
Once the throat muscles are
tightened, snoring should subside.
The vibrations on the Snore Circle
adjust to your snoring level and
are tuned well enough so that they
don't get so strong that people just
end up waking up instead they are
just enough to alter your throat
muscles. The mask has an 80 mAh
battery and can detect snoring by
giving out vibrations at 36 levels.
It allows the users to monitor and
analyse their snoring, its intensity
and decibel level along with
sleeping data through its Snore
Circle App.
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provide ‘smart help’ to patients in
getting consultation from doctors.
The chatbot comes with a USP that
when a patient accesses it for help,
it learns using the information
given by the patient and uses the
information to reinforce its decision
network. The chatbot tracks user’s
activity, sleep, calories and fitness
data to help them reach their goals
with continuous reminders, insights
and motivation. The VISIT offers paid online consultation, through
video and voice channels and seven
days of free follow-up check-up over
text chat. The service also maintains
a pool of MBBS doctors who through
its ‘Q’ service offer free health advice
by text. The pool of 2200 doctors
includes: psychologists, dieticians,
dermatologists, sexologists, gynae-
cologists, preventive cardiology
and paediatricians besides general
physicians.
S-based start-up Zipline has
developed a drone that can
deliver urgent medicines, blood
and vaccines mid-flight. Hospitals
can text orders to Zipline for the
required products, which are packed
at its centres and then launched
aboard the drone that races along
at over 100kmph. The autonomous
drone then drops the package via
parachute at the designated area.
Zipline improves access to these
supplies by flying over impassable
mountains and washed-out roads,
delivering directly to remote clinics.
The supplies are centralised and provide on-demand deliveries,
completely reducing waste and
stock-outs. Zipline provides a
seamless delivery system at an
affordable price, obsessing over
every detail, so that healthcare
providers can solely focus on
patient h