LPTv1

Bettering emergency response.

Life Preservation Technologies (LPT), a team with deep global expertise in emergency response protocol and medical devices, sought to create a smart medical bag to better equip those responding to severe incidents such as terror attacks and natural disasters. Together, 10XBETA and LPT developed the LPTv1 bag in response to both their vision and requests from industry experts for optimization, improved safety, and better documentation methods.

Deliverables:

  • Rapid Prototyping

  • UX

  • Design for Manufacture

  • Packaging design

  • Industrial Design

  • Branding

  • Electrical Engineering

Beginning with an initial concept, 10XBETA worked with the LPT team to capture the complete product vision and desired user experience, and later translated workshop findings into User Research objectives.

10XBETA completed over 50 hours of user interviews and focus groups with elite military personnel and first responder teams from around the world, including fire chiefs, EMTs, flight nurses, and others, to better understand what responding to a Mass Casualty Incident entails. Working with the LPT team, insights were prioritized to create a set of design guidelines and principles that aligned with user research and the founding team’s product goals: 

  • Organization & Ease-of-Use

  • Modularity & Storage

  • Two-Way Communication

  • Documentation & Record-Keeping 

  • Individual Safety

  • Lightweight & Durable

Designed to be seen.

The primary goal was to create an aesthetic for the bag that felt more technical, rugged, and trustworthy, while remaining flexible for future applications. To ensure universal recognition of the first responder at the scene of an event, the Star of Life and bold, large white MEDIC graphics were chosen as symbols. Lastly, graphics and coloring were developed to ensure the bag was recognizable to onlookers, day and night, at first glance.

Connectivity
is key.

It was important to the LPTv1 team to include a beacon that would allow users to extend and illuminate the scene while documenting the scene for later use in deconstruction, analysis, and training. Once the desired form was finalized, the team worked to layer in electronics, which included a button-controlled audiovisual siren, GPS localization with WiFi + LTE position streaming, 360-degree video capture atop the beacon pole with Wi-Fi + LTE streaming, and a multi-gas sensor module with WiFi + LTE data streaming.

Final
Fabrication

The final set of bags were created using custom vacuum forms to produce durable shell components. The metal frame and end caps were formed by our manufacturing partners and later fitted with electronics at 10XBETA in New York. Once components were ready to go, 10XBETA partnered with Wearable Media to determine optimal patterning and to complete the final fabrication.