In India, there is an estimated 10 million persons with epilepsy (PWE), with over 1 million suffering from refractory (hard-to-treat) epilepsies. Its prevalence is about 1% of the Indian population. With Tjay – our epilepsy management solution, we are trying to respond to two fundamental questions that arises in the minds of people with epilepsy and their caregivers.
• How can we make the lives of people with epilepsy safer and enable them have a better quality of life?
• How can we enable doctors to provide more accurate and faster diagnosis to such patients, especially to those who do not have access to specialists (neurologists, neuro-surgeons and epileptologists)?
We discovered that the answer lies in wearable technology that allows us to monitor people with epilepsy continuously, remotely and non-invasively.
There are two key parts to our solution – the TJay hardware which is a specialized glove with embedded sensors that acquires biomedical signals from the palm and transmits them in realtime to a cloud environment, and a software solution with machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) that will evolve as a decision support system for doctors.
We have two versions of TJay - one for the masses and affordable, and the other is a high end version capable of real time transmission of signals.
We have created our product in collaboration with the medical community.