Realizing what’s coming out of your body could be simply as helpful for sustaining a wholesome way of life as being picky about what goes into it. As a part of a brand new initiative targeted on “turning the lavatory right into a linked, data-informed well being and wellness hub,” Kohler has announced a health tracker called the Dekoda you connect to your rest room. It’s designed to see into the bowl utilizing sensors and analyze what it sees utilizing algorithms to supply insights into your hydration and intestine well being, and it’ll discreetly notify you when blood is detected which could be indicative of extra critical medical points.
The Kohler Dekoda system, which incorporates the sensor itself, a magnetic charging pad, and a wall-mounted distant, is available for preorder now for $599 with transport anticipated to start out on October twenty first. The collected well being knowledge is made obtainable by means of the mobile Kohler Health app — which is at the moment obtainable for iOS and coming quickly to Android — however solely with a Kohler Well being membership that’s $6.99 per 30 days or $70 per 12 months for single customers, or $12.99 per 30 days or $130 per 12 months for a household plan that accommodates as much as 5 customers.
The Dekoda is designed to be put in on the rim of most rest room bowls utilizing a easy increasing clamping mechanism, though Kohler warns it won’t work on darker coloured bogs the place the lighting is diminished. On the surface of the bowl, you’ll discover many of the electronics and a magnetic battery that may be eliminated for charging as an alternative of getting to fully uninstall the Dekoda.
On the within you’ll discover superior optical sensors that use spectroscopy to “observe how gentle interacts together with your waste.” To make sure privateness, the sensors are angled down so that they solely see what’s inside the bathroom bowl. The information shared to the app, which incorporates the frequency, consistency, and form of your waste, is end-to-end encrypted, and the Dekoda makes use of a fingerprint sensor on its wall-mounted distant to distinguish a number of customers.
The information shared by means of the Kohler Well being app based mostly on the Dekoda’s findings over a number of days could make you conscious of when you ought to be hydrating extra incessantly or how dietary adjustments might enhance your digestion or nutrient absorption. And whereas the system can’t present particulars on the origin of blood detected in your waste, it helps guarantee the doubtless critical symptom doesn’t go unnoticed so you may get it checked out by a physician and handled sooner fairly than later.
