Product

Data to and from the most remote health facilities.

We're bringing digitally invisible communities online with a low-cost infrastructure for better health data management.
Digital Health tools are critical for the communication of needs and coordination of care across the world.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, at least 100,000 health facilities lack access to reliable electricity and internet connections. This lack of infrastructure makes these Digital Health tools inaccessible.
We've delivered that stable infrastructure so that remote healthcare facilities can go digital.
Power, where electricity is never guaranteed.
Our solar-powered solution can last for three days without any source electricity. Making it perfect for the 74% of health clinics that don't have consistent power access.
Connection, where access is intermittent.
Unlike any other technology being deployed, our box generates its own wifi from a local server. It works even if networks go down—making it perfect for the 83% of health clinics don’t have consistent access to a network.
Visibility, where up-to-date data is hard to come by.
The box automatically sends data to a distributed ledger. Our unique technology means that data is up to date, resilient to any one centre going down, and doesn't depend on high-bandwidth foreign cloud computing solutions.
What are the parts of our system that make it work?
-- Hardware
1.
Resilient hardware for remote healthcare
• Solar powered, and can operate for three days without power source.
• Built to weather extreme heat and environmental wear.
• Creates a dedicated wifi hotspot.
• Microservers at any facility can communicate with each other through any available means (2G cellular, digital radio, etc...)
• Physically secured to reduce misuse and theft.
-- Hardware
2.
Terminals and Charging Station
• Off-the-shelf tablets, customized to run our own lite operating system, can run for a full day on battery.
• chargeable with the charging station that also serves the box, which is solar powered + has a built in battery for uninterrupted power.
• The micro-server can service any device that needs an internet connection—not just our tablets.
-- Software
3.
Simplified working environment
• A paired down operating system allows for computational efficiency—and avoids Microsoft-based viruses.
• Built to host multiple applications: can operate any health management applications that are currently in broad use.
-- Software
4.
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
• Reliance on DLT reduces computational demand as compared with other cloud-based solutions.
• New Microserver can be constituted from DLT—eliminates data-loss risk associated with fatal failure of Microserver.
• Structure can hold infinite data types—ensuring interoperability between data sets.
-- Service
5.
A commitment to keep the system running
Annual fee includes an integrated service offering that holds Signalytic accountable for digital uptime and data accessibility.
-- Hardware
1.
Resilient hardware for remote healthcare
• Microserver and tablet charging stations are solar powered, and can operate for three days without power source.
• Built to weather extreme heat and environmental wear.
• Creates a dedicated wifi hotspot.
• Microservers at any facility can communicate with each other through any available means (2G cellular, digital radio, etc...)
-- Hardware
2.
Tablets
• Off-the-shelf tablets, customized to run our own lite operating system, can run for a full day on battery.
• Chargeable with the charging station that also serves the box, which is solar powered + has a built in battery for uninterrupted power.
• The micro-server can service any device that needs an internet connection—not just our tablets.
-- Hardware
3.
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
• Reliance on DLT reduces computational demand as compared with other cloud-based solutions.
• Data is retained across a network of micro-servers—increasing the accessibility and reliabiltiy of remote healthcare data.
• Structure can hold infinite data types—ensuring interoperability between data sets.
-- Software
4.
Simplified working environment
• A paired down operating system allows for computational efficiency—and avoids Microsoft-based viruses.
• Built to host multiple applications: can operate any health management applications that are currently in broad use.
-- Service
5.
A commitment to keep the system running
Annual fee includes an integrated service offering that holds Signalytic accountable for digital uptime and data accessibility.

How does it all play out in real life?

8:00 am  Data gets inputted at a remote health centre.

A healthcare worker inputs drug stock data into our S+ System at a remote health centre in rural Uganda.

8:05 am  That data is shared to the distributed ledger.

Even though there is no active internet connectivity, that data is shared to a distributed ledger that is accessible in other local healthcare facilities (that are connected via our S+ Distributed Ledger), and other relevant stakeholders. It never leaves the country to go to a foreign cloud.

8:10 am  A local doctor is in search of oxytocin.

The power may have just gone out while their patient was giving birth—but they checked their S+ System so he knows that, as of 10 minutes ago, a health centre less than 10km away has the drug in stock. They ask an assistant to go bring the drug back.

9:15 am  A district stock-coordinator sees the relevant data.

Though some of the health centres are offline—a national level drug-stock coordinator can see that many centres are running out of anti-Malarial drugs. He puts in an order for those remote facilities.

10:00 am  A program manager at an international development agency gets evaluation data.

For the first time, they see exactly how many drugs are being used in rural areas—and what the funding gap is to meet real needs. They are able to better report the impact of dollars invested—and effectively advocate to close that funding gap.

How does it all play out
in real life?

8:00 am  Data gets inputted at a remote health centre.

A healthcare worker inputs drug stock data into our S+ System at a remote health centre in rural Uganda.

8:05 am  That data is shared to the distributed ledger.

Even though there is no active internet connectivity, that data is shared to a distributed ledger that is accessible in other local healthcare facilities (that are connected via our S+ Distributed Ledger), and other relevant stakeholders. It never leaves the country to go to a foreign cloud.

8:10 am  A local doctor is in search of oxytocin.

The power may have just gone out while their patient was giving birth—but they checked their S+ System so he knows that, as of 10 minutes ago, a health centre less than 10km away has the drug in stock. They ask an assistant to go bring the drug back.

9:15 am  A district stock-coordinator sees the relevant data.

Though some of the health centres are offline—a national level drug-stock coordinator can see that many centres are running out of anti-Malarial drugs. He puts in an order for those remote facilities.

10:00 am  A program manager at an international development agency gets evaluation data.

For the first time, they see exactly how many drugs are being used in rural areas—and what the funding gap is to meet real needs. They are able to better report the impact of dollars invested—and effectively advocate to close that funding gap.
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Our Impact
50
Facilities active
< 2 hours
End-to-end data transmission
400,000+
Transactions to date
“This technology is ground breaking.”
-- representative of Uganda Ministry of Health, Department of Health Informatics
Our Partners
Work With Us
Back-end developer (Signalytic Uganda)
Full time, Uganda-based
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If you think you might be an interesting fit to our team, or might be able to contribute to our work in some way, feel free to reach out to share more about yourself! Email: contact@signalytic.ca

No job openings at the moment, but we're always happy to talk. If you think you might be an interesting fit to our team, or might be able to contribute to our work in some way, feel free to reach out to share more about yourself! Email: contact@signalytic.ca