The Oxygen CaddieThe Oxygen Caddie

Rex Lin – Chief Executive Officer

Robin Chuang – Vice President

Nathaniel Culham – Chief Financial Officer

Richard Chan – Chief Operating Officer

Jason Czerniej – Chief Technical Officer

Introduction

Overview•The size and need of the market

•Design description

•Marketing

•Future features and applications

•Conclusion

•Demonstration

•Question & comment

The size of the market

• Frost & Sullivan finds the U.S Oxygen therapy Devices Markets revenues in 2005

– $ 528.2 million

•Estimated revenues in 2012

–$ 885.9 million

The Need of the market

•Oxygen Therapy–Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)–Pulmonary fibrosis–Cystic fibrosis (CF)–emphysema –sarcoidosis

The solution

•Our proposed product is the solution

Design Overview

•Our product R&D team is split up into 3 departments. The mechanical, hardware, and the software department

Electronic Mechanical

Programming

Oxygen Caddie

Mechanical Design•Able to support the weight

•Special design of sensor house

• Keeps our circuits safe

Design OverviewElectrical Design Features

•3 Major modules, 3 Major challenges overcome

Controller

Emitter/Sensor

Actuator

Block diagram

Sensor•Our sensors uses infrared sensors

•Advantages-Cheap

-Available

-Proven

-Simple

•Other solutions-Ultrasound

-Modules such as the Sharp GP2D02

Controller

•We are using the PIC16F876A microcontroller from Microchip

•Advantages-Meets our processing requirements

-Cheap ($3.40 US)

-Easy to use in a prototype

•Other solutions- FPGA, web camera, HC11

Actuator

•Consist of only one driving IC L298

•Advantages-Simple controlling circuits

-Cheap controlling circuits

-Many distributors

•Other solutions-Stepper motor

Programming DesignProgramming Design Features• The brain of our robot is a PIC16F876A

–Interpret the sensor data and determine the position of the user–Check the distance from the user–Control the motor movements by output the correspond signal to the motor driver for a determined period

Design Overview

Marketing

Location People Surveyed

People interested

Ridge Meadows Hospital

22 14

Arbutus Care Centre

35 24

Wilson Centre

16 9

Product and Service

Highly reliable automated device that holds an oxygen tank and follows the user

Low cost compared to the other solutions available for it’s benefits

The best solution out there because it eliminates the burden entirely of carrying an oxygen tank

Can be modified to other markets

Market Analysis

~14 million Americans suffer from COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and 6 million treat this disease

Treatment includes oxygen therapy

These people can benefit from our product

Not many competitors

Strategy and Implementation

Trial run at a host hospital to ensure reliability and to gain creditability among the health institutions

Spread to more hospitals locally and expand locally and then nationally

Expand to old folks homes and to individuals who can benefit from our product

Financial Plan• A profit-loss statement• Basically increase sales to increase profit• Cost decreases with mass production

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3

Number of Sales 200 600 3000

Price per sale $300 $300 $300

Total Sales $60,000 $180,000 $900,000

Cost per unit $250 $200 $150

Total Cost $50,000 $120,000 $450,000

Profit $10,000 $60,000 $450,000

Future features

•Various distance control

•Warning signal

•Tracking

•A recharging module

•Unique ID

•Less space occupied while not in use

•Power saving features

Future application

•Golf caddie

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Future application

•Shopping cart for the future

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Future application

• IV caddie

• Industrial Caddie

Conclusion

Projections

•2006–Working prototype I –Start prototype II–Patents–Start marketing on a small scale–Finding investors

Projections

•2007–Approvals for our are targeted markets met–Supply Chain set up–Full scale marketing Campaign–Finish prototype II–Release product

•2008–R&D starts second product for other fields (Golf or IV Caddie)

Demonstration

Question & comments

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