First prize at the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE.

From the archive: this article and its quotations describe the work and ambitions announced in 2017.

Long before connected inhalers were a category, the idea had to prove it was more than an idea. In 2017 Respiro took first prize at the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE's Milestone Awards, carrying it into the next phase of the competition as the year's leading entry.

Respiro put connected sensing behind the sensors on a patient's inhaler: it read each inhalation as it happened and turned it into an objective record of medication use and inhalation technique.

The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE was a multi-year global competition to develop AI for the benefit of humanity, with its grand prize awarded on the TED stage.

Originally published 8 December 2017.