Tangibles Case Studies

Homefree SeniorCare Locator

TheRoad•theroadtlv.com/portfolio/#seniorcare ↗

I2D is a Red Dot, iF, ID Magazine, and Chicago Athenaeum Good Design award winning (2001) product and industrial design studio, offering strategic design through full turn-key development: industrial design, UI/UX, engineering, production support.

What makes it smart · the challenge · the result

What makes it smart

The SeniorCare Locator is a connected senior-care wearable location tracker: a body-worn device with cellular/location tracking that continuously reports a wearer's whereabouts to caregivers.

The business challenge

High Total Cost of Ownership: the device's design required recurring battery and strap replacements, driving up the lifetime cost of operating each unit.

The advantage / result

Major architectural redesign separated the watch body from an interchangeable strap-and-battery assembly, cutting TCO by half.

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HomeFree Systems SeniorCare Locator watch. Credit: I2D design office, Eitan Sharif

scanProof

A construction Tech company

This company monitors progress of construction projects, through comparison of material and assembled elements with the BIM (Building Information Modeling) database.

What makes it smart · the challenge · the result

What makes it smart

A mobile-first OCR validation system that processes scanned documents (e.g., bill of lading) at the edge: - on-device OCR runs instantly on the worker's phone to gate scan quality with no network needed - asynchronous cloud AI handles semantic extraction with deterministic guardrails (RegEx, ERP cross-referencing) - A reduced human-in-the-loop check catching the remainder gaps.

The business challenge

Reliable OCR/document capture in real field conditions – mobile-first, with limited or intermittent connectivity. A pure cloud-plus-human-review architecture stalled: scans couldn't be processed off-network, and manual review saturated, pushing validated results past a full workday for what was meant to be near-instant.

The advantage / result

The tiered edge-first architecture let workers move to the next shipment immediately regardless of connectivity, and cut the human-review load from 100% of documents to roughly 20% – making latency and cost manageable while curbing the AI's tendency to produce clean-but-wrong data.

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Scan sequence prototype. Credit: TheRoad

puRO Grande

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Maker of automatic RO purifiers that turn yacht dock water into spot-free water for washdowns, showers, and tanks. Aimed at superyacht crews.

What makes it smart · the challenge · the result

What makes it smart

puRO Grande is an automatic freshwater purifier with a modern interface built into the unit itself and supported by a companion mobile app. Operating parameters and usage data are stored in the cloud, making monitoring, configuration, and service access straightforward - a sharp contrast to the obscure buttons, levers, and control panels still common among industrial-control competitors.

The business challenge

puRO Grande addresses the operational burden of freshwater management on yachts: washdowns are time-consuming, marina water quality varies, and hard-water scale can stain surfaces, damage finishes, shorten paint and gelcoat life, and affect onboard water systems. By automating reverse-osmosis purification of dock or marina freshwater, puRO reduces crew workload, protects the vessel, improves guest water quality, and removes the salt handling and recurring maintenance associated with conventional yacht water softeners.

The advantage / result

puRO Grande delivered a cleaner, faster, and lower-maintenance way to manage yacht freshwater. By automating reverse-osmosis purification at 500 liters per hour, it reduced washdown time, protected surfaces and internal water systems from scale damage, improved guest water quality, and eliminated the salt handling and routine servicing associated with conventional water softeners.