THE NEXT GENERATION OF NEUROTECH
The Kitea System
The Kitea System aims to give patients, families and clinicians something they have never had before: visibility into intracranial pressure, outside of a hospital, in everyday life.
SENSOR
Roughly the size of a few small grains
of rice. Wireless and battery-free, drawing power only when the
Wand is held nearby.
Our system is designed with four components that work together.
WAND
A handheld device used at home to take a reading in moments.
THE KITEA APP
The Kitea App logs each reading. Readings are recorded to reveal trends overtime.
CLOUD
Stores readings securely over time.
Can be shared with a care team when needed.
THE SYSTEM
The Sensor carries no battery of its own. It draws energy wirelessly from the wand only at the moment a reading is taken, then falls silent again. Removing the battery removes one of the biggest long-term failure points in implanted electronics, and is part of what allows the sensor to be designed for long-term implantation.
Underneath, the system runs on purpose-built firmware developed to medical-grade safety standards, the same rigour is applied to every part of how a Kitea reading reaches a patient's phone.
No battery, by design
Most medical implants are built from titanium. The Kitea Sensor uses hermetically sealed glass housing instead. A thin metal layer sealed between two layers of glass changes shape in a way the sensor can measure with precision, in a similar way to how a touchscreen senses the pressure of a finger. This is part of what allows the device to be built so small while remaining accurate over the long term.
Built to be biocompatable for the long term
Measuring pressure accurately inside one of the most sensitive environments in the body, is a hard engineering problem. Two design choices sit at the centre of it.
The Kitea system
HOW ITS BUILT
PATENTED TECHNOLOGY
Protecting innovation in care
Name
Registration number
Registration date
Implantable pressure sensor
At Kitea Health, innovation drives everything we do. Our mission to provide better care for people living with Hydrocephalus is backed by a family of patents, reflecting research that began at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, years before Kitea Health was formed.
27 August 2024
12072257
Pressure sensor
13 June 2023
ZL2017800829384
Country of issue
United States
China
Pending
Pressure sensor
European patent office
23 August 2022
11422051
United States
Implantable pressure sensor
6 January 2023
ZL2019800716915
China
A wireless power transfer pick- up, a method of controlling the pick-up,
a wireless power transfer station.
Inductive power transfer using energy injection
Pending
European patent office
23 December 2025
12506369
United States
Inductive power and data transfer using energy injection
Pending
Patent Cooperation Treaty
Implantable wireless sensor system
