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aquaLinkFitbit for America’s Divers
Navy divers perform challenging tasks under difficult conditions that have long-lasting health impacts.
How might we protect both the short- and long-term physical health of our nation’s divers?
aquaLink is a wearable device that records data critical to diver health and safety, and makes it actionable through real-time alerts and post-usage analytics.
TEAM
Dave Ahern: International Policy/Defense AcquisitionHong En Chew: Hardware EngineeringRachel Olney: Product DesignSamir Patel: Mechatronics/Finance
SPONSOR
Brian Ferguson & U.S. Navy Special Warfare Group 3U.S. Special Operations Commandaqua
Link
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MILITARY LIAISONS
Todd CimicataChris ConleyJameson Darby
ADVISORSColin SupkoBob BrakemanRay DickMike HardAdrian MantoiuSean MurphyBooze Allen Hamilton
Pro
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s Customer Interviews
10This Week
20All Time
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Key Takeaways from Class
In addition to our initial focus on NEDU as the key stakeholder to evaluate/certify new devices, we have to figure out how who’s who in the acquisition process for
NSWG3/SOCOM and which of these people we need to get buy-in from.
Our problem is a gap that ideally would become a requirement and we need to figure out which organizations within the DoD would own this requirement, which have suitable
types on funding, and who else within the DoD/IC would be interested in a solution.
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Hypotheses going into Week 2● Vitals and Data
○ The diver’s priority is mission success, vitals monitoring is not critical to that (as opposed to comms and geolocation) and a device that does only that will not get buy-in from divers.
● Communication○ They want to improve communication links between different dive pairs and between dive pairs
and the troop commander on the SDV.
● Geolocation○ They want to have reliable and accurate geolocation that provides overall situational awareness.
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“An Hour in the Life”
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Communication Link MVP
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Vitals Monitoring MVP
“Suppose we could deliver this - is this what you are actually looking
for?”
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Hypotheses going into Week 3● Vitals and Data
○ Divers will want real-time alerts regarding vitals (and put up with the additional gear/procedures) if and only if the alerts notify them of issues that threaten mission success.
○ Researchers want data on vitals beyond the mission-critical ones, and data from the rebreather rig gauges (air consumption), and data from the dive computer (dive profile).
● Communication○ The most critical comm channel yet to be adequately realized is two-way comms between the
troop commander on the SDV and the diver pair(s) operating away from the SDV.
● Geolocation○ Requirements (resolution, range) are highly dependent on the particular use case, and current
methods are full of pain points but no single problem is seen as top priority to solve.
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Customer DiscoveryHypotheses Experiments Results Actions
Real-time vitals information is not as important as the vitals for long term research because real-time data will not change the mission
Stakeholder interviews. All customers so far have confirmed this. However, we are refining our view of “short-term”.
Consider data in 3 phases:1. During the mission:
emergency alerts only2. After the dive: for rest
period diagnostics3. Long-term: for research
on dive health prognostics
They want to improve communication both within a dive pair and between the SDV and dive pairs.
Used communication link diagram to determine how critical and adequate each link is.
Within a buddy team they already have a communication procedures. What they are lacking is pair-to-pair communication and pair-to-SDV team communication
Focus on looking at communication from pair-to-pair and pair-to-SDV
They want to have reliable and accurate geolocation that provides overall situational awareness.
Stakeholder interviews. Geolocation requirements (resolution, range) are highly dependent on the particular use case; current methods exist but are full of pain points.
Differentiate the use cases and their requirements, determine if additions to the existing system can enhance current relative situational awareness
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Mission Model
- Need funding from sponsors for further R&D/manufacturing - Need evaluation/ certification by NEDU before field deployment- Early adopters- Operators Must Benefit During Mission for Buy-In
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITIES
KEY RESOURCES
VALUE PROPOSITION BUY-IN / SUPPORT
DEPLOYMENT
BENEFICIARIES
MISSION BUDGET MISSION ACHIEVEMENT FACTORS
- Problem sponsors: Navy Special Warfare Group 3 (NSWG 3), U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)- Military diver-related research organizations: Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU), SOCOM Human Performance Resource Center, Naval Underwater Medical Institute (NUMI)- Commercial partners: medical device/wearables companies, mil-spec dive equipment manufacturers
- Fundamental cycle: hypotheses -> MVP (rapid prototyping of hardware/ software) -> stakeholder interviews to evaluate MVP -> pivot and repeat
- Defence procurement expertise: course staff, sponsors, DIUX, liaisons- User expertise: military divers, scientific divers- Medical expertise: med sch, SOCOM HPRC
- Hardware/software prototyping costs (RDT&E from NEDU or SOCOM)
- Purchase of existing products on the market for evaluation (NSWG3 or NAVSOC N-8).
1. Feasibility: At the end of the quarter, NSWG3/SOCOM decide that our proposal merits further development and initiates their internal processes for funding/pilot testing/field deployment
2. Performance: Our prototype should demonstrate that all critical features can be integrated within given size/weight/cost specs
3. User satisfaction: Divers are excited develop SOP to upload data as part of recovery process.
- Obtain device validation and approval from NEDU- Pilot test with a select group of users in NSWG3 - Scale up to many units in and beyond NSWG3
- Medical Staff: Create the Navy’s first long-term repository of diver health data: detailed dataset to improve training/operation protocols and predict and prevent long-term injuries
Direct users in NSWG3 and other military divers
Military diver-related research organizations e.g. NEDU, SOCOM HPRC, NUMI
- Divers: Seamless integration of real-time vital monitoring, geolocation, and communication Integrate vital and system monitoring: alerts protect diver from short-term injuries
NAVSOC/SOCOM Procurement Specialist. (Initiated by NSWG3’s N8, approved by NEDU testing.)
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AquaLink Value Proposition Naval Special Warfare Group 3
-Develop tailored platform to sync individual diver data in central repository accessible by medical professionals
- Synchronize oxygen system and vital monitoring through wireless connection system- Possibility of co-opting existing commercial communication device (UDI)
Wearable Sensors and Data
Repository
-Extremely proficient and adaptive divers-Access to world class medical professionals and performance coaches-Relatively agile procurement/acquisition process
- No singular interface for all Dive information-No ability to monitor vitals in real time-No ability to maintain flexible communication between divers-No overall locational situational awareness
Conduct underwater
operations for the U.S. Military
Value Proposition Canvas
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Work Flow
NSWG 3NSWG 1/2 NSWG 4 NSWG 10 DEVGRU NSWC
NSW
SOCOM US Navy
Staff Staff
S&TL J8 HPRC N8 NEDU
UHPI
SDVT-1
TroopTroopTroop