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Public-health surveillance

Anonymous, cohort-level surveillance from bathroom signal, done in a way the public will accept.

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Biomarkers
  • Microbiome markers

    Indirect microbiome proxies from stool morphology, inflammatory markers, and metabolite signatures.

  • Breath VOCs

    Volatile organic compounds in exhaled air. Metabolic state and gut signal.

  • pH (urine)

    Urine acidity. Drift signals diet, hydration, infection risk, and renal function.

Sensors
  • Stool imaging & analysis

    Bowl-mounted imaging with on-device computer vision for stool morphology (Bristol scale), frequency, colour, and gross inflammation markers.

  • Breath VOC sensor

    Metal-oxide and electrochemical arrays for volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath. Useful for ketones, gut metabolites, and infection signatures.

  • Urinalysis test strip

    10-parameter reagent strip read at the seat. Captures pH, nitrites, leukocytes, glucose, blood, protein, ketones, urobilinogen, bilirubin, and specific gravity from each void.

  • Urine spectroscopy (optical / SERS)

    Non-contact optical analysis of urine in the bowl or stream. Uses vis-NIR absorbance, fluorescence, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to fingerprint analytes without consumables. Calibrates against the same biochemistry strips read by urinalysis.

Open questions
  1. 01

    How might we build cohort-level public-health signal without surveillance harms?

  2. 02

    How might we earn participation through architecture, not policy?

  3. 03

    How might we make outbreak and chronic-disease signal faster than current systems allow?

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