Eva Ahmetaj

MA Design Engineering

Concord: Passive Health Tracking

A backlog of health data is valuable. When something goes wrong with your body, it shows up in the data. That can nudge you toward seeing a doctor, or help your doctor reach a diagnosis faster.

Most people track health data with wearables, but wearables have high abandonment rates. They break, the batteries degrade, you lose them, you have to remember to charge them, remember to wear them every day.

Concord is a passive health tracker that removes the friction. It sits on your nightstand and uses millimeter-wave radar to capture the four biometric signals that matter most while you sleep: resting heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, and sleep stages. Our app turns those continuous streams into plain-language insights and surfaces trends you'd never catch on your own.

The data builds quietly in the background. By the time something's wrong, you already have months of context to compare against. And often, the signal shows up before the symptom does.

Project done in collaboration with Willie Shaw Fineberg MA 26 DE.

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The Concord passive health tracker: a small white nightstand device with a circular gray radar sensor on a rounded square head, mounted on two chrome posts atop a square base, with a black handle on top.

Concord
Aluminum, 3D-printed resin, textiles

A passive bedside health tracker designed to capture sleep biometrics without wearables. The device uses millimeter-wave radar to measure resting heart rate, heart rate variability, respiratory rate, and sleep stages. Its minimalist form prioritizes invisibility in the bedroom while maintaining optimal sensor performance.

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