NisurgSmartSpa
What are we solving for?
There are too many kids and elderly people drowning in bathtubs in their own homes. Several celebrities have also drowned in their own bathtub in the recent past. These accidents are completely preventable with adoption of the technology that is currently accessible and was not available even a few years back. However there are no products currently available in the market that addresses this drowning issue.
Why is this important ?
On average, 389 pool or hot tub-related drowning deaths involving kids under 15 were reported each year from 2017 to 2019 and this number is still significantly above 300 in 2022 and 2023. According to the CPSC, drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death among 1- to 4-year-olds.
We have not found any products in the market to prevent these fatal accidents for our vulnerable population. A smart spa that can alert and take action during critical situations can save lives. It will also bolster the confidence of a large retail consumer base. Our solution, NisurgSmartSPA, embeds a privacy-enabled camera in the tub to capture and track only the outline of the nostrils. A ComputerVision-based AI model tracks the time duration that a nostril is underwater. If the nostril is detected to be underwater above a time threshold, it sends an SMS to a caregiver and starts draining the tub. There is a privacy-enabled microphone to capture sounds. The AI model filters out the potential drowning sound and correlates with the nostril position for accurate drowning detection. The captured sound and nostril locations are never stored or transmitted and are deleted immediately after processing locally at the tub location.
We believe that NisurgSmartSPA will bring disruption in the Tub market.
Solution
NisurgSmartSPA is a Tub with a built-in camera and microphone. The AI enabled camera tracks only the nostril location with respect to the water surface. The microphone is AI trained to capture gulping sound from drowning. Both the nostril tracking and gulping sounds are correlated in real time to accurately detect the drowning scenario. NisurgSPA uses a high volume drain to empty the Tub at a rapid pace, once it detects a drowning situation and saves life. It also alerts appropriate caregivers.
Contributions
Unique Value proposition
NisurgSPA detects drowning situations and also takes action to save life. Since different people have different Tub usages, NisurgCare uses an AI model to train the baseline usage for a given deployment. A time correlated major deviation from the baseline in the nostril location and gulping sound is used to accurately detect drowning.
NisurgSmartSPA can be configured to send alerts to a caregiver (or emergency personnel) or it can be configured to take an action like draining the tub after detecting a drowning situation. For homes with already installed security monitoring devices, NisurgSmartSPA can integrate with the vendor’s platform and send the alert messages to the dispatchers. This enables NisurgSmartSPA to be available to a wider customer base and the security vendor can add-on the “Drowning alarm” service along with their traditional “Smoke alarm” and “Burglar alarm” services.
Competitive Advantage
There are currently no competitive products in the market. NisurgSmartSPA is a blue ocean idea and will disrupt the Tub market. It will allow us to add services that are useful everyday, like - real time water leak detection, high water temperature detection to safeguard against burns, pump malfunction detection, etc. We believe that our end users will love this transformation and will feel a lot more in control of the operational aspects. With this automation, customers can get their SPA ready and filled up with water at an appropriate temperature even before stepping into their home.