Material And Precision Engineering

Harmonex Limited

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52 Potential

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enquiry.marketing@hkstp.org
+852 2629 1818
5/F, Building 5E, 5 Science Park East Avenue, Hong Kong Science Park
Raw Description
Harmonex Limited is a Hong Kong-based health-tech startup revolutionising eldercare through innovation and compassion. We empower "ageing in place" with accessible, intelligent solutions that enhance the quality of life for patients and caregivers. Our human-centric design blends advanced functionality with warmth, ensuring a seamless experience. By addressing ageing population challenges, we foster independence and dignity for bedridden individuals, especially those with dementia. We envision a future where advanced, cost-effective care is within reach for all, combining innovation with compassionate support. | Description | Harmonex Limited, a Hong Kong-based health-tech startup, develops AIRmotion, an AI-powered soft robotics medical mattress designed for long-term bedridden patients, particularly those with dementia. Combining adaptive repositioning and real-time monitoring, it prevents pressure injuries and reduces caregiver strain. Incubated at HKSTP, Harmonex leverages a cross-disciplinary team to deliver cost-effective, intelligent eldercare solutions. Committed to promoting "ageing in place," the company enhances the quality of life for patients and caregivers through innovative, home-friendly technologies. || Product | AIRmotion’s innovation lies in its soft robotics medical mattress, which integrates AI-driven repositioning, a full-body capacitive sensing matrix, and an AIoT platform to transform care for bedridden patients, especially those with dementia. Its core technology features ergonomic actuator clusters that adapt to individual biomechanics, reducing pressure injuries and replacing labour-intensive manual turning with gentle, real-time robotic assistance. The cost-effective capacitive matrix offers live monitoring and ML-based predictive bed-exit alerts that minimise false alarms. The AIoT platform enables automated care routines and remote oversight via an app, enhancing patient comfort, safety, and caregiver efficiency with a scalable, home-friendly design.

Strategic Analysis

Executive Brief

Harmonex Limited is a specialized medical-tech startup focused on the "AIRmotion" system—a soft-robotic mattress for bedridden and dementia patients. Their technology integrates a full-body capacitive sensing matrix, AI-driven actuators for repositioning, and an AIoT platform for real-time monitoring. Their primary engineering challenges involve long-term sensor reliability, hygiene maintenance in "aging in place" scenarios, and the thermal management of edge-computing hardware integrated into quiet, home-based medical devices.

Strategic Fit & Lead Score

Lead Score: 52 (General Research / Engineering)

Why this Score? While Harmonex produces a "soft" consumer-facing medical product, their underlying hardware requires high-precision sensing and extreme durability. 6C’s Boron-Doped Diamond (BDD) offers a breakthrough in electrochemical sensing for patient health monitoring (e.g., sweat/urine analysis) and in-situ disinfection. Furthermore, their AIoT "brain" requires compact, silent thermal management where Polycrystalline Diamond (PCD) heat spreaders outperform traditional bulky cooling systems.

6C Solutions Proposal

Application Area 6C Solution Technical Value Prop
Biomarker Sensing BDD Electrochemical Electrodes Integration of BDD sensors into the mattress matrix allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of pH, uric acid, or lactic acid in sweat/fluids without sensor degradation or fouling.
In-situ Disinfection BDD Electrolysis Cells 6C BDD electrodes can generate ozone or hydroxyl radicals from trace moisture/liquids to automatically sanitize the mattress surface or internal air-lines, preventing "hospital-acquired infections" (HAIs).
Thermal Mgmt (AIoT) PCD Heat Spreaders Enables the AIoT edge-processor to run high-load ML models for "predictive bed-exit alerts" without noisy cooling fans, using diamond’s 2000 W/mK thermal conductivity for passive cooling.
Actuator Durability MPCVD Low-Friction Coating Applying diamond-like carbon or micro-diamond coatings to internal valve/pump components of the soft-robotics system to ensure 24/7 operation over a 10+ year product lifespan.
R&D Customization Custom MPCVD System Provision of a desktop MPCVD reactor to allow Harmonex’s R&D team to develop proprietary diamond-based biosensors in-house.

Engagement Hooks

  • Technical Question: "How does Harmonex currently manage sensor fouling and baseline drift in your capacitive matrix when exposed to the long-term moisture and chemical salts inherent in eldercare environments?"
  • Value Statement: "6C can upgrade your AIRmotion platform from a repositioning tool to a comprehensive diagnostic suite using Boron-Doped Diamond sensors that never need recalibration and provide medical-grade biochemical data."