Chicago Inno (Oct. 26) -- Three Illinois alums are working on a wearable device that can sense when you're in an emergency and call 911. The device, named Anansi, will integrate sensors into a wearable worn on the wrist that can measure an individual's physiological parameters, and when those levels are breached, the device will start vibrating. ECE alumna Nikita Parikh enlisted fellow Illinois alums Hollis Carroll (an industrial designer who's worked on assault prevention tech previously), and Matthew Vanek (a software engineer) to start working through solutions. Together, they created a prototype in a senior design class run by professor Scott Carney, and were accepted to Chicago Innovation Exchange's Summer@CIE program.
Wearable electronics
10/26/2015