Bengaluru: Electronics company Philips on Tuesday launched a range of products aimed at boosting healthy living, prevention and treatment of diseases, diagnosis and homecare.
These include the Air Purifier Collection 3000 and 6000, Children’s Respiration Monitor, Fetal Heart Rate Monitor, Dream Collection sleeping aids and e-alert system.
“In keeping along with our global mission to improve the lives of three billion people a year by 2025, the Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) in Bengaluru remains focused on disruptive innovations to deliver solutions that address some of the outstanding challenges,” said PIC chief executive Srinivas Prasad.
The air purifiers offer protection from fine particles, harmful gases, odour, bacteria and viruses, restricting particulate matter 2.5 from entering human airways.
“The Philips Air Purifier Collection 3000 designed to make you residence a healthier place and Philips Air Purifier Collection 6000 for larger corporate and industrial spaces where air conditions are tough to purify,” said Jayati Singh, business head, Air, Philips India.
The Philips Fetal Heart Rate Monitor and Children’s Respirator Monitor, launched globally, were additionally developed end to end at PIC, said Prasad, adding they are made rugged and are currently being used in Africa.
The heart rate monitor is aimed at detecting pneumonia in infants and children and its in-built loudspeaker enables the healthcare giver to hear the infant’s heart rate and identify abnormal heart beat for prompt action.
With a battery life of 10 hours, it additionally comes along with a crank to produce power to run the device when the battery dies. A minute of cranking produces 10 minutes of operation.
On the other hand, the respiration monitor measures the breath rate of children under five years and is aimed at fighting child mortality from pneumonia.
Catering to people suffering from sleep and snoring problems, Dream Collection devices help people along with severe sleep apnea to better manage the problem and additionally cure mild and moderate sleep apnea, while the e-alert system continuously monitors the key parameters of MRI systems and issue an alert if something is amiss.
Philips India managing director Raja Venkatraman said PIC has actually completed 20 years and Philips company as a whole 85 years in India.
“We design, develop and make 50-55 per cent of Philips kitchen and garment care products in India. 20 per cent of personal care and 50 per cent of hair care products are additionally made in India,” he said.
According to Venkatraman, PIC has actually been growing 30 per cent annually, along with its possibile headcount rising from 2,500 to touch 3,000 by the end of 2016.
IANS
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