Project Ventilator needs YOU to design a simple, maintainable, easy-to-manufacture ventilator to provide life support to COVID-19 Patients anywhere in Bangladesh.
Project Goal
To design a low-cost, simple, easy to use and easy to build ventilator that can serve Bangladeshi COVID-19 patients, in an emergency time frame. It should be easy to build locally, must be easy to verify its functionality, and must meet the design requirements specified below. Three finalists will be selected and their designs will be available to download for free.
To motivate participation from local manufacturers, they encourage participants to submit provisional patents prior to the announcement of final designs, while granting a license to local builders to manufacture their designs during the COVID-19 crisis.
Team requirements
Expertise
- Each team must include at least one relevant medical professional with publicized credentials and one relevant technical/engineering professional with credentials to approve safety requirements
- Each team member must provide a short resume of qualifications relevant to the design (e.g. engineering degree, industry experience, other relevant experience)
Communication
- Each team is responsible for having at least one team representative on our communication platform to answer failure reports and end-user questions
- This should be maintained throughout the contest and beyond, as long as implementation of the device exists for COVID
- Other communication means must be provided and kept up to date for later needs (email etc.) in case of a future crisis
Capacity and costs
- Each team must have the local capacity to produce, test, and demonstrate the performance of their design in accordance with the specifications.
- Costs of design and prototyping are to be covered by the contestants
Judgement
- The finalists will be chosen by our panel of judges
- Three designs will be endorsed on April 10th following validation by our panel of experts.
- The three designs will then be available for download, and we will track the number of verified implementations and feedback on the designs, and determine the most impactful design as the winner, the second as 2nd prize, and so on.
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Using the best design we will crowdfund to produce 2,000 pieces of Ventilators to distribute for personal and institutional use.
Location:
BangladeshBenefits
- Award: 200,000 BDT;
- The top three designs will be available for free download to anyone who needs them, saving lives immediately. Start now, we have no time to lose!
Eligibilities
- This Challenge is open to the large public of Bangladesh. Participants must be of legal age;
- All the documents that may confirm the Participant’s eligibility will be required prior to awarding any prizes (e.g. identity document, student card, etc.);
- This Challenge is open to everyone. If you are related to employees of the organizer, the affiliated institutions, or any of the judges, advisors, or experts, you MUST disclose this conflict of interest.
Application Process
Product Requirements: Requirements.pdf
Procedure
- Registration:
Team requirements must be met and justification provided. Teams must agree to rules. - Submission requirements
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- Deadline: March 31st.
- Material to submit the design, test, and use documents (please name files with concise descriptions).
- CAD drawings, 2 options:
- 3D files (.dwg, .stdprt, .sldasm, .ipt, .iam)
- Fully annotated 2D drawings (.pdf) 3-D mesh files (.stl)
- Fully annotated circuit diagrams (.pdf)
- Functional bock diagram (.pdf)
- Code: software/firmware. Include brief installation and user guide (.pdf)
- Bill of materials (.pdf)
- Clear and concise assembly instructions (.pdf)
- Clear user guide (.pdf):
- How to use the device
- How to run a validation test and how often
- How to maintain the device and clean the device, video demonstration of the device (.mp4)
- Test methods and test results (.pdf)
- Endorsement letters from:
- ICU professional (ICU Physician or respiratory technician) (.pdf)
- Engineering professional attesting that safety (electrical, fire, etc.) have been met (.pdf)
- CAD drawings, 2 options:
- Submissions via https://projectventilator.org/
- A letter attesting to lack of conflict or identifying who on the contest panels is potentially at a conflict of interest with a given submission
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Application Deadline: March 31, 2020
Application ClosedOfficial link
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