The Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 held in Hyderabad and focused on women-led businesses was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Ivanka Trump White House advisor and daughter of US President Donald Trump. In her inaugural address, Ivanka specifically mentioned three businesswoman who represented the vision, ambition and grit of every woman entrepreneur in the world – Dara Dotz from San Francisco, Reyhan Camalova is from Azerbaijan and Rajlakshmi Borthakur from India .
There are no guesses to who drew the maximum support,applause and excitement during Ivanka’s speech. Our Indian mom who decided to make a difference in the lives of other families suffering from Epilepsy.When her son was diagnosed with epilepsy there were limited resources and tools available to detect the same, going through that, Rajlakshmi decided that something had to be done to prevent others from a similar fate.
Rajlakshmi Borthakur is a regular Indian mother, who is now CEO and founder of TerraBlue XT. She is a mompreneur hailing from Assam, currently based in Bengaluru. An Alumni of IIM, Calcutta, Rajlakshmi is a teacher, trainer, writer, programmer, usability expert, UX specialist and a content strategist. Through her organization Terra BlueXT, she aims to share a stand of hope with people fighting chronic disorders, hoping to make their lives a little better, more safer and if at all possible, a little more happier, using cutting-edge research and technology.
In April 2015 Intel and Digital India initiative had launched Innovate Digital India challenge, where Aspiring or existing entrepreneurs and innovators were invited to develop intuitive and easy-to-use solutions to drive technology adoption or create applications that accelerate the delivery of e-governance services through eKranti/MyGov apps on mobile platforms.
One of the top 10 finalists was TJay, a wearable ‘smartglove’ with applications to enable remote tracking, monitoring, diagnosis, treatment and support for people with epilepsy. It can transmit signals from the body with and without internet connectivity and has three components – checking bodily electrical current against a reference, accelerometer for seizure detections and temperature sensing. In all, TJay senses 11 types of signals from the body, such as temperature, respiration and blood pressure, compares them against preset threshold values and gives indication of occurrence of an epileptic attack.
The integration of the hardware and software allows for predicting the onset of an epileptic attack, so that patients can receive timely treatment that can save their life or prevent permanent damage. Equally importantly, it also helps doctors take decisions based on the data that TJay presents, as opposed to decisions based on assumptions when data is unavailable. And lastly, it allows hospitals and doctors to remotely monitor patients using TJay and provide proactive support that could go a long way in ensuring that epileptics are treated in a timely manner.
Rajlakshmi is recognised as one of the 12 women transforming India by the UN as well as NITI Aayog.
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