Meracle – Whizz: An innovation in bronchial asthma inhalation therapy

World’s first digital spacer device that can be used to assess and improve compliance with inhalation procedures.
Headcount

7 Headcounts: 3 Mobiles, 1 Full-stack, 1 BA/QA, 1 DevOps, 1 Project Manager

Industries

Healthcare

Products and Services

Cross-platform Health App

Timescales

2.5 months

Country

Singapore

The Challenge

The Whizz improves the management of respiratory conditions by increasing the efficiency of medication delivered into the lungs while tracking intake data to augment the assessment of treatment outcomes. The Whizz spacer helps deliver medication effectively to patients, paired with a mobile application that has multiple features to track and encourage compliance through gamification and manage treatment regimens.

Meracle successfully created an iOS version of the Whizz mobile application and was seeking a partner to build a version that runs on Android devices. In late 2023 and 2024, Meracle potentially planned to expand into the European, Japanese, and Taiwanese markets. This must be evaluated while creating the new application. ​

The Solution

SmartDev came up with two different approaches to provide the new applications: building an Android native application and building the application on cross platform technology. In the approach 1, we will build another Android application besides the current working iOS application. The team has finally decided to implement approach 2, which will build cross platform app with React Native tech stacks.​

Technology Stacks

React
AWS
PHP

Application Core Functions

Rewards system

Rewards system to incentivize children to take medication accurately and consistently. The child friendly mobile application motivates children to play an active role in their medication regimen. The application automatically tracks the progress against goals and provides proof of achievement. Parents and children can customize rewards and level of difficulty.

Report

Automatically summarizes events, specifically compliance and technique data as well as occurrences of symptoms and triggers, that can be shared with doctors. By having access to accurate and objective data, doctors will be able to track progress and identify suboptimal compliance and technique, thus optimizing treatment dosage and improving the quality of care. This also reduces the hassle that patients currently face by having to manually record these events into a log book.

Daily reminder and alert

A unique feature that assesses users’ financial preparedness and offers actionable recommendations to improve their score.

Client Achievements

Cost-Effective and Efficient Development

The decision to implement a cross-platform app using React Native provided a more efficient and cost-effective solution compared to building separate native applications for Android and iOS.

Unified Development and Maintenance

A cross-platform app streamlines development and maintenance efforts, as code can be shared across both platforms. This reduces development time and costs, while ensuring consistency across the user experience.

Faster Time-to-Market

By adopting a cross-platform approach, the client was able to accelerate the development process and bring the new application to market more quickly. This allowed them to capitalize on opportunities and gain a competitive advantage.

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