Plans to expand Get To Sleep Easy to take on the geriatric population in the developing world
25-year-old Nikhil Autar, leukaemia survivor, along with UNSW Business School student Sachin Kinger, founded a startup, Get To Sleep Easy. The Smart Inclining Bed is their pilot product, aiming to bridge the gap between home and healthcare. Being a medical researcher, Athur had the ability to look through papers and start reading into preventable problems. He found that some of the biggest killers are things like falls and pressure sores.
Explaining the benefits of the device, Autar added, “Hospital beds are too big, too clunky, too expensive, and mats that can detect pressure sores cost $6000 a pop. We invented the Smart Inclining Bed, a device that sits on top of your bed and doesn’t require a frame. It uses a combination of motors and air inflation to lift you up while reducing the price point to a tenth of a hospital bed. We’re working with world leading researchers and doctors in the Clinical Excellence Commission of Australia, Liverpool Hospital and some researchers overseas as well at the University of Pennsylvania.”
Sachin Kinger, UNSW Business School Student said, “The accompanying ‘Centered Around You’ app uses proprietary technology to map patients’ movements, breathing patterns and heartbeat. The app can alert nurses, as well as loved ones, when someone is at risk of a pressure sore, if they’ve fallen or if they’ve stopped breathing. We want to make something that will actually help doctors so they can focus on those harder patients to treat and give them more time when they need to”.
Autar plans to expand Get To Sleep Easy to take on the geriatric population in the developing world. The prime objective is to work with developing world NGOs to create affordable hospital beds that reduces rates of complications. The long-term goal is to bridge the gap between home and healthcare that currently exists because the aging population is set to double by 2030.