Kairavi Budhiraja Wins "Most Promising Talent" for Shwaas-"Every Breath Counts" At jagran Josh Awards
Amity International School student Kairavi Budhiraja won the “Most Promising Talent” Award at the Jagran Josh Education Awards for ‘Shwaas’. Inspired by personal loss, this AI-enabled wearable device detects nighttime respiratory anomalies like sleep apnea and asthma, alerting relatives before a health crisis turns fatal.
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Kairavi Budhiraja, from Amity International School, Mayur Vihar, East Delhi, has received the highly regarded “Most Promising Talent” Award at the Jagran Josh Education Awards for her project ‘Shwaas Every Breath Counts’ that had a very personal touch for her. The competition focuses on students who use innovative technology to find practical solutions to problems faced by society.
As stated in the description of the project, Shwaas is a wearable, AI-enabled technology meant to detect breathing abnormalities at night. Each day, various factors, such as respiratory inflammation, acid reflux, and reduced levels of anti-inflammatory hormones in the body, silently put many people at risk. Nocturnal asthma, GERD, and sleep apnea are just some of the conditions that might be overlooked until it is too late.
With the rise in respiratory diseases over the past few years after COVID-19, these have become some of the most common causes of death among the top ten. In fact, the inspiration for the device comes from a personal loss Kairavi suffered after the sudden death of her maternal grandfather, who had failed to be aware of his breathing problem during the night. Seeing how the existing products were far from being easy-to-use devices that can be worn to alert relatives beforehand about any issues, she created Shwaas.
Shwaas: Transforming Personal Grief into a Healthcare Shield
Kairavi Budhiraja developed Shwaas due to the untimely death of her grandfather at night due to unobserved respiratory failure. Her invention replaces costly medical equipment with an affordable, wearable technology that monitors breathing patterns at night through local AI mapping of distress patterns due to respiratory issues such as sleep apnea and asthma, setting off alarm bells when there is an emergency situation. With this innovation, she has received an accolade as "Most Promising Talent," demonstrating how remote monitoring can be scaled up as an important, decentralised safety net in post-COVID times.
Project link: https://youtu.be/1Y54M0BUeNI?si=SkjRIwvxTUBIQbvy
Siddhi Sharma, working as a Content Writer at Jagran Josh, has graduated from IPU with a Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication. She has 1 plus year of experience in content writing. She writes on education, current affairs, and general knowledge. She has previously worked with Zee News as a content writer.
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