Victoria is the founder of IEETech, a social enterprise which developed Chipsafer, a startup software that tracks and detects early anomalies in cattle health, remotely and autonomously. At the age of twelve, Victoria built a monitoring system to track the behavior of cattle, hoping to prevent a repeat disaster of the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. This idea will eventually sow seeds for Chipsafer eleven years later. This technology has been recognized as innovative because it provides multi-layered benefits to users, Chipsafer offers real-time tracking and animal behavior data that increases livestock safety, improves animal health monitoring and reduces farmers operational costs. She pitched this idea for the International Telecommunication Union’s Young Innovators competition and won. The technology itself is revolutionary because it uses an external solar-charging device to transmit data about these animals to our servers for processing and analysis. The farmers can then log in to Chipsafer’s web platform from anywhere in the world, see the livestock’s position and get insights about the animal’s performance. The main goal of this resource as stated by Alonsoperez is allowing farmers the ability to make better decisions, improve the farm’s productivity, and even make better use of the natural resources. In 2015, Victoria Alonsoperez was nominated as one of the most inspirational women of the year by the BBC 100 women series.
Medical innovations are always great to hear about. From an impact standpoint, there is direct correlation between their product offering and their impact, because their product is being used as their direct mode of impact. It is also cool in that, most medical innovations happen within niches, meaning a small population will ever be impacted, however, to those people going through issues, each innovation can make a world of difference.