EchoSense on TV: Watan Raqami covers our graduation showcase
Watan Raqami featured EchoSense at the Arab Academy's graduation showcase — 'built at a quarter of the cost of international competitors, ready to become a startup.'
EchoSense was featured on Watan Raqami (وطن رقمي), the digital-technology news program, during the graduation project showcase at the Faculty of Computers and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport.
“We successfully built the infrastructure at one quarter of the cost of international competitors — and we are ready to establish a startup to produce these devices locally.”
— Ahmed Khairallah, EchoSense team
What the coverage highlighted
- An integrated ecosystem: the Echo 1 wearable plus the EchoSense Companion app, serving blind and visually impaired users and people on the autism spectrum.
- Safe navigation and independent living without any special infrastructure — no beacons, no smart-city hardware, no mandatory connectivity.
- Emergency SOS and caregiver monitoring built in from day one, with privacy-first engineering.
- Attention from the judging panels for combining technical innovation with a humanitarian mission.
Why local production matters
Assistive devices imported into emerging markets often cost more than a year's income for the families who need them. By building on commodity hardware — Raspberry Pi 5, off-the-shelf sensors, and the user's own iPhone — EchoSense keeps the bill of materials low enough for local assembly and local prices.
You can read the original Arabic coverage on the Watan Raqami website:
«مشروع EchoSense يخطف الأنظار في حاسبات الأكاديمية العربية» — Watan Raqami ↗
Questions about EchoSense, pilots, or partnerships?
Talk to the team