Algorhythm
THE TARGET USER: Seniors and vulnerable patients living independently who are at high risk of falls and cardiovascular anomalies, alongside the family caregivers, home-care nurses, and clinicians responsible for their safety. Caregivers currently face constant anxiety and severe alert fatigue, while elderly individuals want to preserve their autonomy and privacy without invasive surveillance cameras or clunky medical pendants. THE PROBLEM: Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury among seniors, and over 80% of victims cannot press a manual emergency button due to shock, loss of consciousness, or physical injury. Lying unattended on the floor for hours leads to rapid clinical deterioration, hypothermia, and high mortality. Existing solutions fail in the real world: manual panic buttons require the victim to be conscious; smartwatches trigger frequent false alarms from everyday arm gestures; and video cameras are an unacceptable invasion of privacy in bedrooms and bathrooms where most falls occur. Furthermore, current monitoring systems spam caregivers with raw, isolated numbers without clinical context, making it impossible to distinguish between normal activity and life-threatening emergencies.
Preliminary score
- Value for the user17.0 / 25
A specific problem and a clear outcome from solving it.
- Prototype and use of AI13.5 / 30
A working core scenario, and what AI actually contributes to the result.
- Quality testing11.0 / 20
Tests, examples of failures, and comparison with the current approach.
- Feasibility5.5 / 15
Data requirements, running costs and a clear next step.
- Originality5.0 / 10
A meaningful difference from common solutions.
What the judges wrote
- Claude Opus 5.5Preliminary48/100
- Strengths
- Your problem framing is concrete: seniors living alone who cannot press a panic button after a fall, and caregivers swamped by context-free alerts. The three-tier escalation (low, medium, high risk) gives a clear outcome model. Your prototype has real engineering behind it: an Expo/React Native app, an Express and WebSocket gateway, and a scenario simulator covering 10 clinical and device-failure cases, including stale data, offline radar and failed notification delivery. Reporting specific bugs you hit, such as the rule-precedence collision and the multi-patient telemetry leakage, is honest and useful.
- To improve
- Your AI contribution is unclear. The README describes a deterministic rule engine, and the GPT-4o-mini triage and summary layer is claimed but not shown, so demonstrate one LLM-produced incident summary or escalation decision and compare it with the rules alone. Your tests confirm that the rules behave as coded, but not that fall detection is accurate. Even a small recorded ESP32 or IMU dataset with false-positive and false-negative counts would show whether you actually reduce alert fatigue. Your feasibility case needs hardware sourcing, LLM and connectivity running costs under a no-subscription 199 AZN model, medical-device and regulatory considerations, and a realistic pilot partner such as a home-care agency.
- GPT-6 AstraPreliminary56/100
- Strengths
- Your project addresses a concrete caregiving problem: detecting emergencies without cameras or relying on someone pressing a button. Your documented simulator connects telemetry scenarios to risk levels, incident evidence, and caregiver acknowledgement, including device failures rather than only happy paths. Your testing report names specific bugs and fixes, especially stale-data rule precedence and cross-patient telemetry leakage.
- To improve
- Your README documents a deterministic workflow; show the LLM executing on a scenario and measure its contribution beyond rules. Extend your tests to held-out sensor recordings, measuring missed falls, false alarms, and alert latency against a wearable-only baseline. Before automatic emergency escalation, define clinician-reviewed thresholds, confirmation safeguards, and delivery-failure handling. Specify the actual radar hardware, labeled-data requirements, per-user operating costs, and a supervised home-care pilot; the 199 AZN selling price does not establish running costs.
The team
Nurgun Hajırahimova
product
Yaghmur Mammadov
developer
Ulker Soltanova
product
Elnur DautovLead
business
Eyub Azizov
developer