RegPoint awarded for new tsunami warning system
RegPoint Ltd has won the international mHealth prize, granted by the Aegis Graham Bell Awards®, the world´s largest award in fields of T.I.M.E. (Telecom, Internet, Media, and Edutainment). RegPoint won the price for its early warning systems that warns about tsunamis, earthquakes, epidemics and other dangers – as well as RegPoint's mHealth product that improves doctor-patient communication.
”RegPoint's tsunami warning solution product is really a great innovation, which can be of significant use in the most disaster prone country in the world. More than that the other products have shown a great potential in helping the patients”, says Dr. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Dean, Aegis School of Business. RegPoint's technical platform is developed in Sweden. The company´s system will be used for early warning against tsunamis in India by INCOIS, a tsunamicenter established after the tsunami catastrophe in 2004.
Warnings via SMS to millions of regular phones
“This is big for us since the winners usually are large company like Cisco, Ericsson and Intel, not small companies like us”, says Sophia Salenius, RegPoint´s Founder and Managing Director. “It was the Indians that approached us; we are fairly alone in this field. The way the service works is that the individual user registers to the geographical area where he or she usually can be found. Then they get an early warning via SMS if a tsunami is coming to that area”. That it is an SMS is crucial since many people cannot afford smartphones.
Could save millions of lives
“We are extremely proud to partner with RegPoint & INCOIS in providing a service that could potentially save millions of lives in the future”, says Rajiv Gupta, Chairman & Founder GoBindas Entertainment. GoBindas has been a leading VAS player in the Indian market for the past seven years. Sophia Salenius continues: “The next step is to make it possible to locate the SMS-warnings automatically. New technique that we are now implementing makes it possible to geolocalize mobiles in a certain area. Thanks to our cooperation with INCOIS, the RegPoint system for tsunami warnings now can be used in 17 countries, including the Indian Ocean rim countries, Australia and Indonesia.”
Improving medical treatments
RegPoint also develop mobile products aimed to help chronically ill people. “We connect doctors with patients to help the doctor manage the patient´s medical treatment and check that everything is working as planned. The mobile reminds the patient when it is time to take medication and when it is time to register other measurements, as for example bloodglucosa values. This way the doctor can monitor the patient remotely. Here we also work mainly in India”, concludes Ms. Salenius.
Indian Minister of State at the Awards Ceremony
RegPoint received the award at the annual Aegis Graham Bell Awards® Ceremony in New Delhi on October 25. Among the guest speakers at the ceremony were Dr. Kruparani Killi, Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Government of India and Marten Pieters, CEO of Vodafone.
”RegPoint's tsunami warning solution product is really a great innovation, which can be of significant use in the most disaster prone country of world”, says Dr. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Dean and Professor at Aegis School of Business, New Delhi, India.
Sophia Salenius, Founder and Managing Director of RegPoint Ltd. Here seen one of her many visits to India where RegPoint cooperates closely with INCOIS, the national Indian tsunami-warning center. Together they are in the process of making RegPoint´s warning system available to millions of Indians. The service is free of charge for the individual mobile phone user.
For more Information, please contact:
Sophia Salenius, Founder and Managing Director, RegPoint, tel: + 91 8527 926765,
+ 46 733 922240. E-mail: sophia.salenius@regpoint.eu
Mohit Varshney, Project Head, Aegis Graham Bell Awards, tel: +91 9699 02858,
e-mail: mv@bellaward.com
Gyavin Picardo, Nomination Coordinator, Aegis Graham Bell Awards, tel: +91 9022 893868
e-mail: gp@bellaward.com
About Aegis Graham Bell Awards
Aegis Graham Bell Awards®, is the world´s largest award in fields of T.I.M.E. (Telecom, Internet, Media, and Edutainment). In 2012 Aegis Graham Bell Awards had over 140 nominations from 80 companies. Participating companies included Airtel, Ericsson, Vodafone, Cisco, Reliance, Star TV, Infosys and many others. The Aegis Graham Bell Awards award was started after an initiative of Aegis School of Business, the leading Business School for Telecom Management in India. The award is aimed at creating an ecosystem to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and to recognize outstanding contributions in the field of T.I.M.E. Also see www.bellaward.com
About RegPoint
RegPoint is a health services company focused on bringing wireless technology to the global health care community. Started in Sweden in 2003, the company quickly became “early developer” for Microsoft. Bill Gates himself introduced RegPoint during Microsoft´s official .NET launch. RegPoint today is an international company with its development in Sweden and a large part of it´s other activities in India. RegPoint is one of the first mHealth companies. Read more on www.regpoint.eu
About INCOIS
The Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. INCOIS work with improving individual and national safety, for instance in the field of protection against tsunamis. INCOIS continually provide ocean information and advisory services to society, industry, government and scientific community through sustained ocean observations and systematic and focused research. More about INCOIS at www.incois.gov.in
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