Theres A Shortage Of Ventilators For Coronavirus Patients, So This International Group Invented An Open Source Alternative Thats Being Tested Next…

Posted: Published on March 18th, 2020

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OpenLung, the Open Source Ventilator group's prototype

Topline: A group of 300-plus engineers, designers, tech founders and others galvanized on Facebook with a goal of building a ventilator using readily available materials, 3D printing and open-source hardware resources. In just seven days, they built a prototype that will be validated as a solution to the global ventilator shortage by Irish authorities as early as next week.

According to Keogh, the speed at which this project went from idea to being tested by health authorities highlights the power of open-source as a way to solve hardware problems. It doesn't matter where you are, it doesnt matter what your skillset is, what time zone you're in, if you can contribute in a group to these large scale projects, you can have very high-impact results in a very short amount of time, he says.

Key background: Keogh and his fellow Open Source Ventilator Ireland leader David Pollard primarily work as the cofounders of innovation and design consultancy Sapien Innovation. Connall Laverty, founder of cloud platform Wia, joins the OSV leadership. (Keogh and Laverty both made Forbes 30 Under 30 list for the remote work companies they respectively founded.)

Tangent: New York will reportedly require 18,000 ventilators soon, according to The New York Times. The publication also reports that in a pandemic of this nature New York could be short 15,783 ventilators to treat the most severe cases. Ventilator manufacturers could increase production, according to Forbes, but have yet to receive significant order volumes from the U.S. government.

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