Kohler’s Dekoda, an award winning product design, is a compact health tracker that passively collects biological data from routine bathroom visits turning the everyday routine into an opportunity to monitor personal wellbeing. At the centre of the system is Dekoda, a compact health tracker that attaches to the rim of most toilets without tools, using advanced sensors, it analyses waste during authenticated bathroom visits, providing insights into your gut health, hydration and blood presence. Users can track patterns over time and add contextual information including food, medication, physical activity, to better understand how everyday behaviours may relate to their health trends.
Privacy is integral design consideration with the device requiring fingerprint authentication before monitoring begins to keep individual sessions associated with the intended user.The potential benefit is less about a single reading and more about building a picture over time. Dekoda identifies digestive patterns, helping users explore how food, stress and daily routines may influence gut health. Its hydration insights can highlight patterns that relate to mental focus, physical performance and recovery, while alerts about the presence of blood can prompt users to pay closer attention to changes in their health. The device aims to promote consistent health-tracking over time as opposed to once-off testing conducted at healthcare providers, to encourage proactive health and wellbeing.
