Healthcare Embraces Big Data and New Connectivity in Developing Markets
LifeKit is using Nodle to bring healthcare and connectivity into underserved hospitals and regions of the world.

Healthcare in developing regions has changed little in decades. Underserved hospitals struggle to provide neonatal care for millions of infants. Life Kit is removing barriers to health care by lowering the cost to operate medical equipment whilst providing the durability that developing regions require.
Through partnering with Nodle.io, LifeKit affordably and reliably connects their healthcare machines to the internet. Device connectivity is bringing about a new era of data analysis in the developing world, especially as these regions experience exponential growth and demand for healthcare.
Today, conventional medical equipment makers spend millions building a device, but focus only on developed, high ROI regions. Very little innovation has occurred in regards to connectivity infrastructure and analysing the vast amounts of data that these machines create. On top of this, in emerging markets, power outages render conventional equipment useless and lack of connectivity makes it hard to monitor their status.
The next step of innovation in the healthcare space is offering first class services in developing regions. By partnering with Nodle, Lifekit equipment does not require a dedicated internet connection. Now LifeKit devices can send data to the cloud at a fraction of the cost of a dedicated internet link.
Enhanced connectivity represents the beginning of a global trend towards increased access to health data analysis. LifeKit uses Nodle.io’s connectivity service securely and anonymously to aggregate healthcare data.
With over 90% of Earth’s population below 30 residing in developing regions, LifeKit is building the next generation of medical devices specifically for these areas. By combining data with radical new connectivity infrastructure, LifeKit can not only empower doctors, but use this data to build the next generation of data driven health equipment.
A new kind of healthcare system is evolving in the following way:
- Connectivity: Using Nodle to bring low cost connectivity into hospitals. Today, hospitals require IT teams and expensive wireless networks. Now LifeKit equipment can be set up and brought online in developing regions and warzones using standard smartphones.
- Data: LifeKit transmits encrypted health data through Nodle to the cloud.
- Analysis: LifeKit aggregates data securely and anonymously so doctors in developing regions can have access to the best data.
- Decisions: With the data it aggregated, LifeKit will help doctors make better decisions regardless of budget constraints and connectivity issues.
- Saving lives: NeoNatal care continues to be a major issue in the developing world. LifeKit has already deployed more than 3,000 devices continuously saving newborns lives.
Nodle sees regions where infrastructure is underdeveloped as a massive opportunity to innovate and improve rapidly quality of life through smart connected IoT devices. There is less regulation and the growing penetration of smartphones is enabling new innovative solutions to grow faster.
“Low-power, short-range networks will dominate wireless IoT connectivity through 2025, far outnumbering connections using wide-area IoT networks” — Gartner Technology Research 2017

