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A gamified pediatric recovery lab — a smart cast piloted with 5 pediatric patients in a real hospital orthopedics ward.
A first look at SmartCast Heroes — the prototype, the interface, and the idea coming together.
The complete SmartCast build write-up — architecture, sensing pipeline, and pilot methodology.
A closer look at the SmartCast Android app — the full walkthrough, Azerbaijani language support, and the parent-facing section.
The pilot exercised the full SmartCast pipeline end to end — dual-IMU elbow-angle sensing, skin and environmental monitoring, rule-based alerting, Bluetooth sync with offline buffering, and the child- and parent-facing apps — across five real pediatric fracture cases (wrist, forearm, and upper-arm injuries, ages 6–12). Every family used the companion app throughout the cast-wear period, and all patient data was anonymized and used with consent.
Device readings matched clinical review at every check-in. A moisture alert flagged a wet cast hours before a parent noticed it, and the offline buffer prevented data loss twice.
Pulse-oximeter readings were unreliable during movement, one alert threshold needs contextual tuning, and the enclosure was too bulky for younger children.
This was a feasibility and usability pilot, not a clinical efficacy trial — its purpose was to prove the system works end to end in a real hospital, and to find what to improve next.
SmartCast Heroes is a research project building a smart pediatric cast that turns recovery into something children can interact with — gentle gamification, courage-building, and quiet medical sensing all in one device. The goal isn't to replace medicine. It's to make the time inside a cast feel less like waiting and more like growing.
Safe, comfortable, clinician-approved — the cast first, the smart layer second.
Lightweight embedded electronics, designed for a child's body and a child's daily life.
Built around how children actually feel about being hurt — courage, play, agency.
Between 25 July and 20 August 2026, SmartCast completed a supervised clinical pilot at DNK İstanbul Hospital in Ganja, Azerbaijan, in the Traumatology / Orthopedics department. Five pediatric patients (ages 6–12) wore an instrumented prototype during their real cast recovery. Farah collected and logged the data on-site; the hospital's Chief Physician of Traumatology provided clinical interpretation and supervision throughout. The project has also been covered in the press and featured on Instagram.
Updates from the lab as SmartCast Heroes moves from clinical pilot to the next phase.
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