Smriti-Setu - AI for Mental Health & Wellness

"Empowering Bharat’s student-caregivers with the AI touch of dignity and care."

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Inspiration

1.The Distance Gap: Seeing children working in cities while their elderly parents live alone in Tier 2/3 towns with no health monitoring.

  1. Late Detection: Realizing that brain diseases like Dementia are often caught too late due to a lack of specialists in rural India.
  2. Language Barrier: Noticing that most health apps are in English, making them useless for the majority of Indian seniors.

What it does

  1. Offline Screening: Uses AI to scan X-rays and detect early signs of health issues without needing internet.
  2. Care-Connect: A dashboard for children to track their parents' "Wellness Index" (mood, sleep, and physical health) from anywhere.
  3. Vernacular Support: Talks and understands 22+ Indian languages, making tech feel like a friend to elders.
  4. Smart Records: Automatically simplifies messy medical reports into easy-to-read summaries.

How we built it

1.App: Built with Flutter for a smooth experience on all mobile phones. 2.The Brain: Used TensorFlow Lite for offline AI and Google Gemini for empathetic conversations. 3.Voice: Integrated Bhashini API to break the language barrier in Bharat. 4.Data: Secured medical files using Google Cloud Healthcare API and AWS S3

Challenges we ran into

1.Internet Issues: Making heavy AI models small enough to work on a phone without a data connection. 2.Hardware Limits: Ensuring the app runs smoothly on older, budget smartphones used in small towns. 3.Language Accuracy: Fine-tuning the voice assistant to understand different local dialects and accents.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. Speed: Getting our AI to provide health results in under 10 seconds.
  2. Inclusion: Building a medical app that a grandmother in a village can use by just speaking to it.
  3. Scalability: Creating a system that can work for one family or an entire old-age home.

What we learned

1.Simplicity is Key: For Bharat, technology must be invisible—elders care about the "human touch," not the code. 2.Security Matters: Learned how vital it is to keep medical data private and HIPAA-compliant. 3.Empathy in AI: Discovered that AI can be comforting if programmed with the right tone and language.

What's next for Smriti-Setu - AI for Mental Health & Wellness

1.Brain Games: Adding AI-powered games to help seniors keep their memory sharp and fight Dementia. 2.Caregiver Network: Connecting families with AI-trained nurses for physical home visits. 3.Wearable Sync: Linking with smartwatches to detect falls or heart irregularities automatically.

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