Workplace & sport facilities

• Specific gravity

  Urine concentration. Direct hydration signal.

• Heart-rate variability

  Beat-to-beat variation. Autonomic balance, recovery, stress, and overtraining signal.

• Urinary cortisol

  Stress and HPA-axis signal.

• 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.

• ECG electrodes

  Contact electrodes integrated into the seat for short-arm and short-leg ECG. Captures rhythm, conduction, and waveform morphology each sit.

• PPG / optical sensor

  Photoplethysmography optical sensors at the seat and handrail contact points. Captures heart rate, HRV, and SpO₂ from blood-volume pulse.

• Mirror camera

  Low-resolution facial and torso imaging behind the mirror with on-device inference. Reads heart rate, respiration, and SpO₂ via remote photoplethysmography (rPPG); also captures skin tone, posture, and gesture. Raw frames never leave the room; only features.

• Urine immunoassay

  Lateral-flow and microfluidic assays measuring hormones, drug metabolites, and infection-specific biomarkers from urine.

1. 01

   How might we make workplace bathrooms a non-invasive employee-wellbeing instrument?

2. 02

   How might we serve elite sport with the recovery and load signal the bathroom adds?

3. 03

   How might we keep employer and athlete data clearly user-owned?

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