Companies inked a three-year agreement to roll
out Connected Hydration across Chevron sites.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Epicore Biosystems (Epicore), a
digital health solutions company developing advanced sweat-sensing
wearables, today announced that it has inked a 3-year master
services agreement (MSA) with Chevron Technical Center, a division
of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to equip
Chevron's industrial frontline workers with its Connected Hydration
solution. The first deployments are expected to begin in the US in
the summer of 2024.
This milestone MSA marks a pivotal moment for Epicore on the
heels of several field deployments with Chevron and other
enterprises. The Chevron health and safety teams have deployed
Epicore's Connected Hydration solution across multiple work sites
and conditions over the past two years, leading to its commercial
launch in April 2024. Chevron
Technology Ventures also invested in Epicore to support the
development and commercialization of Connected Hydration.
Connected Hydration is a sweat-sensing wearable biosensor and
cloud analytics solution that measures sweat loss, sodium loss,
skin temperature, and movement to provide actionable rehydration
strategies in real time to industrial workers ahead of adverse
dehydration events. The technology enables workers to quantify
hydration biomarkers and create actionable routes to rehydration
and recovery for industrial workers. Epicore's Connected Hydration
solution is a proven sweat-sensing technology that provides
individualized rehydration strategies and real-time haptic
vibration alarms felt by the workers to proactively inform them to
stay safe and hydrate.
"We have spent years developing, validating and deploying
Connected Hydration. A master service agreement with a large
enterprise like Chevron is a testament to how Epicore Biosystems is
bridging the global gap in worker safety when it comes to proper
hydration and heat stress solutions," said Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari, CEO and co-founder of Epicore
Biosystems. "We are honored to work with Chevron as one of our
first customers and to deploy Connected Hydration, enabling
tailored and preventative hydration practices for their frontline
workers. The reality is that a conventional, one-size-fits-all
approach to heat index tracking falls short in meeting workers'
hydration and recovery needs."
Chevron compiled datasets from over a thousand sweat sessions in
total across multiple work sites in the U.S. to explore how
behavioral changes take shape when workers utilize Connected
Hydration compared to conventional approaches. Health and safety
experts along with industrial hygienists observed that Connected
Hydration informed and improved hydration habits significantly by
increasing worker fluid and electrolyte intake over a one-month
time window, via real-time awareness of fluid and electrolyte
losses. This sustained change in behavior in response to
rehydration feedback was rapid and took place within a few weeks of
Connected Hydration use.
"The entrepreneurial ecosystem's speed, together with the
know-how of incumbents - that's a very powerful combination," said
Jim Gable, VP of Innovation and
President of Technology Ventures for Chevron. "In this case,
Chevron and Epicore were able to leverage thousands of work session
datasets across multiple sites to enhance the impact of the
Connected Hydration technology to keep our employees
safe."
Since its launch in 2017, Epicore has lined up several global
collaborators and customers. These enterprises include Chevron,
PepsiCo, Denka, Gatorade, Fluor, Nitto, the U.S. Air Force, Office
of Naval Research, Army and more.
About Epicore Biosystems
Founded in 2017, Epicore
Biosystems is a digital health company developing advanced
sweat-sensing wearables that provide real-time personalized health
insights for hydration, stress and wellness. Their clinically
validated biowearable products and cloud analytics are deployed
globally and licensed by leading Fortune 500 companies, the
Department of Defense and the National Institute of Health. To
learn more, visit https://www.epicorebiosystems.com/.
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