A high-throughput field portable miniaturized device integrated with stabilized bioreceptors toward cost-effective diarrhoea prognosis. It allows the prediction of bacterial cause of diarrhoea, thus minimizes the unnecessary use of antibiotics. Furthermore, it has point-of use abilities. CoLOSENS can empower rural healthcare wherein expensive instrumentations are either scarce or not affordable.

Rural Health Centres

Hospitals

Pathological Laboratories

Research Laboratories

Domestic usage

Portable colorimetric biosensing device

Stabilized bioreceptor and reagent kit

Screening of Bacterial cause of diarrhoea

Sample test time <15 minutes

Battery operated device

Mobile based Android Graphical User Interface

Mobile dashboard for real-time data monitoring

SMS based test result alert

Hardware

• Stabilized and specific bio-receptor for E.coli
• In-house design 9 well microchip and single well microchip
• Camera module
• Single board computing module
• MicroSD card for data storage
• Inbuilt Android mobile
• Android based mobile GUI
• 1 watt LED array with heatsink for optimum lighting
• RSP Switch for remote ON-OFF control
• 20,000 mAh power bank with charger
• LxBxH: 18.5 cm x 10.5 cm x 14.5 cm

Software

• Front end is developed using Android studio and the back end is developed using Python programming.
• The developed application software also uses a SQLite database in backend to store the data, which is used during report generation.

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Dr. Alokesh Ghosh

Head

Agri and Environmental Electronics (AEE) Group

Email: alokesh[dot]ghosh[at]cdac.in

Ph: +91-33-2357-5989 (Ext: 3000)

Dr. Subhankar Mukherjee

Project Manager

Agri and Environmental Electronics (AEE) Group

Email: subhankar[dot]mukherjee[at]cdac.in

Ph: +91-33-2357-5989 (Ext: 3006)