V-PRO Remote Equine Health Monitoring for Equimetrics

Equine health monitoring wearable and app designed for veterinary context


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Despite their size, horses are surprisingly delicate animals, requiring a great deal of care and oversight to keep them healthy. Simple ailments such as colic, lameness or stress, can quickly escalate into life-threatening issues. Colic, is the number 1 cause of premature death in horses, causing 200,000 fatalities annually. Like many other conditions, it’s treatable if identified early, and acted upon quickly. The key is timely access to accurate data.

V-PRO was designed in collaboration with equine veterinarians to meet their specific needs. Equine medical care is a demanding environment. In providing excellent equine care, it’s vital for the whole team to communicate effectively. 

V-PRO facilitates cross-collaboration between veterinarians, and can extend to include owners & trainers. Records are logged against a horse’s unique identification chip creating a patient record in the system. In the hospital context V-PRO communicates minute-by-minute health stats with customisable alerts. The on-board ECG offers an excellent diagnostic tool, allowing cardiac-analysis to be preformed anywhere. V-PRO can also be used remotely, to monitor horses on the farm, or in-transit to ensure the optimum performance at sporting events.

The interaction design encompassed all aspects of use, from safely fitting the wearable harness on the horse, to account set-up and the app UI, including the adjustment of monitoring thresholds and management of alerts. Research was conducted with vets in Ireland and the UK to understand requirements and challenges. An veterinary advisory board was set-up to guide the design process. Contextual visits to equine hospitals were conducted to observe and document the process. Once initial prototypes were available, user testing was conducted with vets, technicians and admin staff to evaluate the ease of use of the solution and in particular the app interface.

The Frontend team quickly understood our requirements and through their subsequent research and design phases they refined the functionality and user experience to help us achieve our vision.

—Annemarie O’BrienCEO Equimetrics

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