Recharge Rooms
Recharge Rooms are hospital rooms where healthcare workers take a break: nature video, music, scent and light, controlled by voice. Studio Elsewhere built them with Mount Sinai. They're in 60+ hospitals, have been used over a million times, and a Mount Sinai survey found they cut staff stress by 60%.
On a team of 4 engineers, I owned the frontend and design of the dashboard that monitors every room. I also helped move the product onto a single board computer, the NVIDIA Jetson Nano, and built its 4K video service.
- Timeline
- 2020 – 2024
- Team
- Studio Elsewhere · team of 4 engineers
- With
- David Azar, Torin Blankensmith, Jiyoon Moon and Mount Sinai's Abilities Research Center
- Role
- Design Engineer
- Stack
- Python, GStreamer, Jetson Nano, Linux, Next.js, React Query
Monitoring dashboard
Problem
Rooms in 60+ hospitals, each on its own Jetson board running voice, video and analytics services, IoT data, logs and Philips Hue lights. The team needed to see all of it in one place.
Result
I owned the frontend and design of a Next.js dashboard with a page for every room and search across all of them. Setting up a new room went from over an hour of hand-written scripts to about 20 minutes.
In the room
Each room has a projector, speakers, Philips Hue lights and a microphone. One small computer, an NVIDIA Jetson Nano, runs all of it, with no one on site to look after it.
