Real-Time screening of infectious & epidemic diseases (VSaaS)

Contactless screening of multiple vital signs ( Temperature- Heart Rate- Respiration Rate- Oxygen Saturation) to predict the potentially infected individuals, reduce the spreading of infectious diseases, and provide real-time data about epidemics.

Kareem Elzeftawy: CEO of FruitFul Solutions

Up to date, more than 138 million confirmed cases and approximately 3 million deaths had been caused by the newly emerged Coronavirus (COVID-19), which has turned into a global crisis that threatens all aspects of life rather than the health sector alone and has also paid attention to how fragile our health systems can be against any outbreak.

While most of the efforts are directed towards finding a vaccine, these efforts have been made earlier since 2003 against SARS and MERS. Up to date, no vaccine has been developed against either of them. Additionally, COVID-19 has a negative impact on the economic status of countries and individuals. 

Many businesses have stopped, and many people lost their jobs because of a lack of resources to periodically monitor the health status of the employees. 

Therefore, there is a persistent need for an affordable and feasible screening tool to prevent further spreading of the highly contagious viral infection, especially after the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration as a global pandemic. COVID-19 has a reproduction number of 2 or greater, which is higher than that of SARS, emphasizes the need for a screening tool to help in infection control and prevention.

Our solution covers a wide range of customers and applies a hybrid model of both B2B & B2C models with B2B being predominant. We seek to supply both public and private entities as our B2B target businesses with tailored features for each. 

The list of potentially targetted customers include: (B2B examples)

• Airports 
• Metro stations  
• Hotels  
• Clubs  
• Companies
• Grand Malls
• Food Factories

Our strategy to know what they need has started by doing preliminary market research and study potential competitors to 

• Firstly, define the scale of the problem in each place and the effectiveness of current alternatives.
• Major pains and gains with current solutions.
• Unique features offered by competitors
• Afterward, we are going to apply more individualized market research by scheduling interviews with representatives under each sector.

Then, we will be releasing the beta- version shortly and install it for our top potentially qualified customers to gain their trust in our system.

Our service holds the meaning of Public good in various ways.

To begin with, all the data obtained will be analyzed and interpreted in the form of reports that can be accessed by the public. Furthermore, any abnormal patterns of potential infection or early alarms will be reported to medical authorities for further investigation.

Free access publications will also be available for use either by individuals or researchers.

The impact of our system includes:

1. Society/ Health system 

• Reducing the cross-infection potentiality especially in crowded places by screening multiple vital signs as predictors of infection at the entrance of these places. Additionally, the contactless technique empowers the concept of the reduction of cross-infection. 

• Providing real-time data about the general health status and the spreading of the disease. 

• It will enable the government to monitor the number of infected people and their status through the dashboard and visualized reports.  

        2. Local Economy 

As one in 10 young people lost their job due to COVID-19 and its frustrating economic impact and the need for employers to periodically check the health status of their employees to keep their business going.  

• Our system will facilitate the screening process and minimizes the need to stop working because of the epidemic as each worker will be examined with the cameras in the entrance.  

As mentioned earlier, our service will be later scaled to target individuals besides the existing B2B models and wel will provide the service in the form of mobile applications which will have various potential uses as follows:

• Used for tracking health status and constitute individualized datasets to enhance the results.
• According to WHO guidelines, can serve as symptoms base indicators for the patient in home isolation.
• Future electronic doctors that keep electronic medical records.
• We can further collaborate with the authorities to unite the medical records of individuals which will significantly facilitate the health system-related processes. 

By using the appropriate set of KPIs for each parameter ( To assess the efficiency of the system)

• Sensitivity
• Selectivity
• PPV- Positive Predictive Value
• NPV- Negative Predictive Value
• Overall Accuracy

Furthermore, SMART KPIs for evaluating needed business metrics will be set with the business team and periodically assessed ( To assess the overall product performance to ensure the achievement of the overall business strategies and goals)   

The financial Barrier is the major barrier at the current period. Although we have been named as one of the top 100 ideas in Africa in AfricaVsVirus Hackathon and obtained a rapid response grant from Academy of Scientific Research and Technolgy in Egypt,but we haven't received any fund so far which threaten our progress so we are currently looking for potential funding opportunities and trinity challenges is one that is tailored for us.

 Technical risks include the precision and accuracy of the final model and how to overcome normal physiological changes that may interfere with the readings and outcome. Therefore, we are going to increase the variables used in the final assessment to optimize the overall accuracy of the system. Furthermore, future features of the system will include the incorporation of face recognition and storage of a medical record for each individual for better results interpretation. Finally, the system's various machine learning approaches will be stimulated to produce the most appropriate prediction model. 

In the next 3 years, the legal barrier of using medical data will be a challenge; however, similar products have overcome this problem by enhancing the privacy of the data, which will be one of our top priorities. 

Electronics Research Institute( We are one of the startups incubated in the first incubation cycle ever of the institute) 

Theodor Billharz Research institute ( Testing setting) 

We are applying for various reasons. To begin with, the amazing network that 'solve' offers will assist us in the current development stage. Moreover, we also apply to cover a persistent need and overcome the financial difficulties to move from the prototype stage to produce our first beta version, then to help in the scaling up in terms of:

• Validation, and certification
• Testing
• Cloud Subscription
• VSaaS construction
• Marketing
• Operation

Firstly, to partner up with major camera vendors in the market as Dahua, Flir, etc.

To produce a compatible system with their cameras and test it in different environments. As well, they will serve as a sales channel.

Secondly, to partner up with software validation as medical device consulting companies as general digital in the USA.