Recognition
Third-party recognition and press references for Orbient and Disease Weather.
Fast Company 2026 Innovation by Design Awards
Honorable Mention, Health and Wellness Design
Disease Weather received an Honorable Mention in the Health and Wellness Design category of Fast Company's 2026 Innovation by Design Awards, announced September 14, 2026.
The recognition is for the design of the consumer product: taking fragmented environmental and disease data — air quality indices, pollen counts, clinical surveillance, wastewater signal — and resolving it into one legible answer to the question a person actually has, which is what today is going to do to them.
Environmental health data has never been short on measurements. It has been short on meaning. The design problem was getting from a number on a monitor to a person deciding whether to go outside. Mark Hardy, Founder and CEO, Orbient
About Orbient
Orbient builds Tropos OPI, a One Health environmental intelligence platform that fuses environmental sensing, disease surveillance, and population vulnerability into continuous health risk scoring. Its public layer, Disease Weather, has been live since April 2026 and provides free real-time environmental health conditions for any US location — air quality, pollen, community disease activity, and environmental conditions fused into a single plain-English Environmental Health Index.
Orbient is based in Cranston, Rhode Island, and is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program.