NYU Abu Dhabi Hackathon Pitch Deck

1. Hakeeme
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4. Literature Research
700 deaths and 90 suicides every year in the
UAE
(Ali 2010)
A single hospital in Dubai saw 5,000 heat-
related injuries per month in the summer of
2004
(Human Rights Watch 2006)
Companies rarely follow government bans on
working during the hottest time of day (Hamza
2014)

5. On Location at Saadiyat Island

6. Key Challenges
Recognizing
Heat/Dehydration
Symptoms
Accommodating
Emergency
Situations
Enforcing Work
Hour and Water
Regulations

7. Problems for Everyone

9. Arabic/Urdu meaning: my doctor, my wisdom
A wearable device to monitor construction worker
health and provide real-time data analysis and reports
of the worker’s well-being to third parties
Hakeeme
‫حكيمي‬

10. Prototype Technology

11. Demo Time!
hakee.me

12. Prototype to Final Product

16. Network Architecture

17. Feasibility

18. Safety
ConfidenceTrust
Social Impact

19. Thank you!
Students
• Dori Palfi, NYUAD, Hungary
• Farah Shamout, NYUAD, Jordan
• Martin Slosarik, NYUAD,
Slovakia
• Tony Lin, NYUAD, Taiwan
• Nora Benson, University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign, USA
• Agoun Juba, Ecole nationale
Supérieure d’Informatique, Algeria
• Badreddine Zebbich, Institute of
Electrical & Electronics
Engineering IGEE Ex.INELEC,
Algeria
• Hajrah Jahan, Manipal University,
UAE
• Hassan Bello, University of
Wollongong in Dubai, UAE
• Mohamed-Zakariae El
Khdime, Ibn Tofail
University, Morocco
• Saif Rehman, University of
Sharjah, UAE
Mentors
• Katy Blumer, Google, USA
• Anas Shahrour, NYU Abu
Dhabi, Jordan
• Ayman Farhat, Software
Engineer, Lebanon

20. Appendix

21. Academic Literature
• Hamza, Sara, “Migrant Labor in the Arabian Gulf” (2014). University of
Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects.
• Human Rights Watch. 2006. Building Towers, Cheating Workers: Exploitation
of Migrant Construction Workers in the United Arab Emirates. New York:
Human Rights Watch.
• Dutta, Pratik, Parveen Kalra, and Neelam Rup Prakash. "Measurement of
Physiological Parameters of Human Body by Using Mobile Devices." IJSR,
2014.
• Ali, Sayed. 2010. Dubai: Gilded Cage. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Dosinas, A., M. Vaitkūnas, and J. Daunoras. "Measurement of Human
Physiological Parameters in the Systems of Active Clothing and Wearable
Technologies." Electronics and Electrical Engineering.–Kaunas: Technologija 7
(2006): 71.
• Neave, Adam. “SH&E Challenges in the Gulf” World Focus Newsletter,
American Society of Safety Engineers.