
ASU students awarded for hydration device
An ASU start-up, HydroGuard, developed an app that tracks peoples’ physical activities, heart rate, skin temperature and fluid intake to give them real-time feedback on their hydration status. The venture’s team includes biomedical engineering graduate student Saanya Aroura, (at far right in photo) in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, part of the Fulton Schools, and Asiful Arefeen (second from left in photo), a master’s degree student in computer science with a concentration in biomedical informatics, in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, also part of the Fulton Schools. The team won an ASU College of Health Solutions pitch fest last September for the hydration monitor designed to help prevent the onset of heat-related illnesses.