Context: Team sponsor Johnson & Johnson tasked us with

creating a solution for the rampant plastic and metals waste

coming from single-use devices, desiring to position their

company as a leader when it comes to creating a circular

economy within the MedTech and Healthcare sectors.

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Solution: The Pathfinder bin is a sorting and data tracking

product which enables discarded devices and high value

materials to enter the Repath system of recollection,

decontamination, recycling, and distribution of recycled

materials to enrolled parties across industries. It allows for

traceability of materials from point-of-origin (OR room)

through to distribution by utilizing sensors that send data to

the Repath Database, which is used to organize and send

appropriate data to stakeholder groups (i.e. the Repath

orchestrator/operator, the manufacturers, the recycling center,

and the hospitals). This solution also successfully met our

objective of creating a system that is minimally invasive to the

standard operations of medical professionals.

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My role: User research/interviews, initial CAD assembly, researching and testing computer vision program, setting fixture parameters for physical implementation of computer vision sensors, database schema design, creation of live websites linked to database, hardware/platform/frame manufacturing and assembly