Nokia and the X Prize Foundation are working together to organize a competition with $ 2.25 million prize for the development of healthcare sensors. The competition called Nokia Sensing X Challenge and the focus purpose is to encourage research and development of the sensor is small enough for integration into mobile devices, not the big and bulky equipment, such as in hospital. These sensors will be used to measure the parameters of users health. The contest organizers wish to these sensor system will help developing countries get access to better medical services at more reasonable prices.
Nokia and X Prize Foundation hope to find a portability and easy-to-use solution help consumers can control their own health as well as deliver measurable results to your doctor in real time. To get the prize, the contestants not only to develop sensors that also pay attention to the application of cloud computing to establish a cheap healthcare system online. In addition, this system must also have good algorithms to diagnose consumers. If you want to won $2.55 million , you can see more in source link.
