Smart walking stick

Smart walking stick

The founder of Walk To Beat, contacted us during a MedTech Actuator program for startups. Walk To Beat wanted to refine their smart walking stick design for people with Parkinson’s Disease and needed to make it ready for preliminary patient trials.

Summary

Industry
  • Medical & Scientific
Expertise
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electronic engineering
  • Firmware Design
Awards
Good Design Award

Project Details

Project Details

The smart stick maps a person’s walking patterns, and uses this information to provide vibrational cues in the handle to prompt the person to take a step forward according to their walking ‘beat’, when they experience a Parkinsonian ‘freeze’.

We worked with the founder to give the smart stick handle more connectivity to pull more data to support the trials, to make it more reliable.Our designers created computer generated images of the smart stick to support Walk To Beat’s marketing activities.

Project image
Walk To Beat’s software and technology maps a person’s walking pattern and connects to a smart device.
Design concepts for the handle
USB port closeup
Image

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