Revision as of 11:23, 29 August 2016

Networking Bodies is a collaborative project between Philips , S.Labs and (Art)ScienceBLR. The project focuses developing Remote Health Monitoring systems.

Background

In India, given shortage of trained staff, providing access to healthcare in remote areas and also care shifting from traditional settings like hospital to home, managing patients under treatment and patients recovering say from surgery has gained importance. We are looking at creating probes, through a hands-on design & technology & design thinking driven exploration leading to new usages and design strategy.

Readings/References

1. Bruce Sterling - Shaping Things

2. Anthony Dunne - Hertzian Tales

3. Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby - Speculative Everything

Research

Example Products

1. GlowCap What- Sends reminders for needed medication. The cap senses the quantity of meds and sends alerts to pharmacy. Blutooth and AT&T cellular based. Once activated, the plugin reminder light and cap connect to the AT&T Mobile Broadband Network, giving you both light and sound indicators for scheduled medications, vitamins and supplements.

2. ZephyrLIFE What- ZephyrLIFE™ RPM offers remote capabilities that enhance the level of medical support a patient receives while enabling them to be monitored in the comfort of their home. The BioModule™ device communicates wirelessly, via Android™*-based devices, to provide monitoring from any location where a phone network or data plan connection is available. It provides rapid updates with physiologic alerts based on Clinical-assigned thresholds and integrates with qualified third-party devices to provide measurements for weight, blood pressure, Sp02, blood glucose, and tympanic temperature.

The BioModule™ sensor is wireless and rechargeable and, when combined with the BioModule™ holder and snap ECG electrodes, becomes the BioPatch™ wireless device wireless. At home, it continuously collects a patient’s physiologic data and transmits the data every 60 seconds for the first 15 minutes, thereafter in 15 minute intervals. The BioModule™ device provides a 30-second, single-lead ECG that records either automatically or on demand when a patient’s heart or respiration rate crosses clinician-assigned thresholds.

BioPatch™ Device Features: Heart Rate 30–240 beats per minute (± 1 bpm) Sedentary Respiratory Rate 5 -50 breaths per minute (± 1 bpm) Position ± 180° (Laying, right, left, supine and prone) Activity Minutes EC38 Type 3 ECG

D.I.Y. Projects

1. Heart Rate Pulse Sensor by Poonam Manse I Sing The Body Electric, Interactive textiles course 2014.

Poonam's wiresless heartbeat sensor

2. Your body is the dataset by Budi Parkosa

Video on facebook of the device in action

Pulse Sensor using Piezo and CocoMake7

3. DIY EMG Sensor by Advancer Tech

Bio-Sensors

Heart Rate and Pulse

Heart rate is the speed of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (bpm). The heart rate can vary according to the body's physical needs, including the need to absorb oxygen and excrete carbon dioxide. It is usually equal or close to the pulse measured at any peripheral point. Activities that can provoke change include physical exercise, sleep, anxiety, stress, illness, and ingestion of drugs.

A pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the heartbeat by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed against a bone, such as at the neck (carotid artery), on the inside of the elbow (brachial artery), at the wrist (radial artery), at the groin (femoral artery), behind the knee (popliteal artery), near the ankle joint (posterior tibial artery), and on foot (dorsalis pedis artery). Pulse (or the count of arterial pulse per minute) is equivalent to measuring the heart rate.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8661 https://www.polar.com/en/products/accessories/ T31_coded_transmitter

We get this for much cheaper at Om Electronics, SP road (used in [http://artscienceblr.org/index.php/songs-of-the-swamp/ Songs of the Swamp with Tasneem) https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12650 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12970 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11574

Muscle

Muscle sensor or Electromyography. Electromyography (EMG) is a diagnostic procedure to assess the health of muscles and the nerve cells that control them (motor neurons). Motor neurons transmit electrical signals that cause muscles to contract. An EMG translates these signals into graphs, sounds or numerical values that a specialist interprets.

Myoware Sensor (made by advancer guys, improvement over their DIY sensor) https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13723

Blood Pressure

It is the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system Need to hack one of these http://www.amazon.in/Blood-Pressure-Monitors/b?ie=UTF8&node=3150031031

Temperature

Lot's of modules available. Local ones as well on SP road

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11050 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10167

infrared temp - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9570

Blood Glucose

The blood glucose level is the amount of glucose in the blood. Glucose is a sugar that comes from the foods we eat, and it's also formed and stored inside the body. It's the main source of energy for the cells of our body, and it's carried to each cell through the bloodstream.

Lots of commercially available home testing kits. Need to hack them.

Internet of Things (IoT) Devices

Lab Essentials

Electronics

Tools

Software

Miscellaneous

Experiments

Galvanic Skin Response (GSR)