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They support us

Archimej Technology and its innovative technology Spectroscopy 2.0® won the France 2012 Award of the Altran Foundation for Innovation . Read more here.

Mejdi Nciri receiving the award on the 23rd of October 2012 from the Professor Arnaud Basdevant, Diabetologist and Head of the Nutrition Service at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris and President of the Jury, during the ceremony at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris.

What is Beta-Bioled?

Beta-Bioled will be the first doctor you can always have with you in your pocket. And we are not talking about a device that monitors your vital signs (heart rate, temperature, blood-pressure, etc.). Those devices are well known, and basically they are simply gadgets.
What we are talking about here is a device that can perform a comprehensive blood analysis such as you do in a hospital today, but from your home (or anywhere you are).

Did you know that blood analysis are the most basic and recurrent In-Vitro Diagnostic tests used by physicians to understand the health status of a patient? They are used in order to evaluate organs functioning, to detect damaged tissues, to control medication and chemical substances present in the body, to identify deficiencies and intoxications, and more generally to monitor known diseases evolution and diagnose new conditions.

This is why we believe blood analysis should be available for everyone, everywhere, anytime and for the fair price.

How will it be?

Beta-Bioled will be a small device that you can hold in your hand and simply use from any place at anytime without any other requirement.

And of course it will also present the same attracting features thanvital-sign gadgetswe mentioned above.

Blood analysis in the palm of your hand.

- It will give you a comprehensive analysis of your blood.

- It will be affordable, fast, easy-to-use and easy to understand. Controlled directly from a smartphone, it will deliver results that can be quickly understood by anyone, providing non-technical pre-diagnostic.

- It will allow monitoring through time. Creating secured medical profiles of patients’ historical results; it will interpret new results based on the person’s profile, adapting the pre-diagnosis to the situation.

- It will be wireless connected allowing, if the person wishes, to transmit the results and medical profile to his personal physician.

Where are we in the development?

During the first two years of development, we have demonstrated the feasibility and high potential of our technology and we successfully achieved and tested several prototypes.

We have now a working prototype that is performing better than the absorption spectrometers currently available on the market. 

The journey

Our next steps of development are to:

-  Integrate the working prototype into a pre-industrial product ready to be launched in scale production.

-  Develop the mobile interface to easily control the device.

-  Perform a clinical study and validation on the field (through an NGO partnership already initiated).

How is it possible?

All the credit goes to Archimej Technology’s innovative technology: Spectroscopy 2.0®.

SPECTROSCOPY 2.0®, the enabling technology.

Spectroscopy 2.0®, is a disruptive evolution of absorption spectroscopy. Thanks to the use of simple LED chips, and a few other frugal and smart innovations in optics. Spectroscopy 2.0® allows to build absorption spectrometers that are ultra-compact, high sensitivity and low-cost at the same time.

Good news then that current machines used in hospitals for blood analysis run on absorption spectroscopy technique. Because what do you get by combining the technique used in hospitals analyzers with a miniature and low cost absorption spectrometer? Beta-Bioled device. 

Join us

In the current environment where everybody feels more and more the necessity to gain control over their own lives and future, the need to monitor their health in a better way comes first. This is why we are asking you today to help us revolutionize health monitoring.

We set-up the campaign objective at the symbolic amount $US1000. 

We need the funds we could receive with this campaign. And we hope they will be the highest possible, because they will help us to keep moving forward in this project we are passionate about. Nevertheless we mostly care about knowing that you back us up, that we share the same believes and that you are part of this exciting challenge we want to face.

We are changing health monitoring, so please join us, and help us make it happen.

Our perks for Indiegogo contributors.

Legend:

The Team

The Archimej Technology team is fully committed to successfully develop Beta-Bioled, the first hand-held and personal comprehensive blood analyzer. And to make it available on the market within the shortest time possible. This is our promise.

Archimej Technology is led by a team of five international entrepreneurs from five different origins (France, China, Hong-Kong, Tunisia and Argentina), with synergic competences and sharing the same beliefs.
Most importantly, they cleverly complemented their flexibility and dynamism of young entrepreneurs with the wisdom and expertise of seniors in different strategic fields (entrepreneurship, scientific, etc.).

"I am convinced that their innovative idea deserves further investigation. Even though their solution does not exist yet, it can quickly lead to the development of a new product with even better, performances as compared to those available up to now.".

[April 2012] Jean-Louis Meyzonnette, Chairman (2000 to 2009) of SPIE European conferences on Optical System Design and Scientific evaluator in radiometry for the French Committee of Habilitation.

They are already 42 to dare.

42 microfinancers, 42 followers, 42 friends, 42 to be part of the movement.

On behalf of the five founding members of Archimej Technology, we truly would like to thank you for believing in us and in our project. You have supported us since the beginning when we needed it the most. It is thanks to you that we are here today, more than a year later.

Take care,
Archimej's team.

FAQ

Q - Why don't you offer pre-orders of the device?

A - This campaign was not aimed at offering pre-orders, because if we did so you will have had to wait more than a year to receive your device. We thoughts it was to much waiting. That's why we set-up this first campaign as a way to get your feedback and as a preparation for a second campaign with pre-orders that will be launched in less than a year.

Q - Will the device be truly portable/mobile?

A - Yes, absolutely! The device dimensions will be around 10 cm long, with this particular boomerang shape (see prototype picture) given by the technology optical path. We will try to update the campaign with some "artist concept" of the device design.

Q - Will it be just yet another device restricted to healthcare professionals?

A - Absolutely not! The device will be possibly used by healthcare professionals, because of the unmet need it satisfy; but it will be principally aimed at mass-market. Our goal is to transfer the diagnosis/analysis capacity from hospitals to the general public.

Q - Will the price of the device be tentative, prohibitive or affordable? 

A - Great question. For the moment, it is too soon to anticipate a retail price for the device. Anyhow, what we can assure is that the device is being developed focusing on mass-market needs and economic capacity. So be sure it will be affordable, and potentially (depending on countries) covered by social security, at least in part.  

Q - Could the device be used by non healthcare specialists?