Need Someone for a Project: Cypress PSoc6 BLE kit +  Honeywell Pressure Sensor Shield

Hi All,

I'm taking your names and providing them to the supplier. He spoke to me about a "medical application."

Could you all provide me a 1-2 sentence on that?

Thanks.

Randall

Hi All,

I'm taking your names and providing them to the supplier. He spoke to me about a "medical application."

Could you all provide me a 1-2 sentence on that?

Thanks.

Randall

Hi Randall, I'm assuming this is more road test than design challenge. 

As such, my aim would be to focus on the kit's ease of use and added functionality when combined with a PSoC 6. Although it seems that this kit is targeted at Arduino with the provision of a HEX file, which is not much use here, it is just as easy to DIY using I2C Serial Communication Blocks (SCB's), for example, and then showing sensor values on the eInk display as well as provide (time permitting) a BLE demo using the blood pressure GATT service (or possibly an adaption thereof).

Having read through the kit's datasheet, I immediately linked this kit to sleep apnea or PAP/CPAP therapy. Having witnessed my daughter undergo a sleep study (as well has having had CPAP from time to time), I could immediately see that this market has a long way to go to get it right. With all the wires and sensors etc. strapped to the body for it is more like a "how long can a person be kept awake due to discomfort and annoyance before eventually dropping off out of shear exhaustion" type studies. So maybe a design challenge in this area would be a good thing to consider as a future event.

Anyway, I recently came across these baby smart socks for SATS monitoring and, as such, felt that this could make for a relatively simple application to demonstrate the use of a pressure sensor (through a pressure sock or arm band or hand glove etc). Otherwise I would be looking at using multiple pressure sensors for a smart mat to monitor the dynamic changes of a person's sleep position.

My apologies if I gave the impression this was a design challenge. It was more a of project where the supplier wanted something specific as far as functionality.

Randall

Ok, thanks for the clarification. Just to add that I still have some equipment at home, such as a nebuliser, an oxygen cylinder, tubing and an oxygen mask (see pics). What I don't have is a means to attach pressure sensor to tubing etc. So, if someone can advise, and/or provide the necessary attachments etc. then it should be quite straightforward to demonstrate pressure measurement etc. on the PSoC 6

rscasny  wrote:

 

It was more a of project where the supplier wanted something specific as far as functionality.

Hi Randall, any more clues to this puzzle?

I'm rather curious. Or is it really just differential versus absolute measurements that you're after.

Or, has it anything to do with liquid measurement, perhaps?

In my search for possibilities I stumbled across this article. Here it mentions a "digitally-controlled drug delivery system" using pressure sensors... nice

https://allsensors.com/applications/medical-pressure-sensor-applications

Hi Randall,

as far as I know - It is not the first time I make medical applications and biomedical devices, as well as the project I am working on during these months in Belgium - making a real "medical" application is a pain. After you have done the best product you meet so many problems trying to make this a reality that you can't imagine, fist of all the FDA for the USA, some other for Europe and so on. I have developed a non-intrusive medical device in 2014 where I and a partner company from Germany spent about 4 months to make the first set of prototypes and almost the double to make certification testings before the stuff has gone to the market.

Based on this premises, it was any way in my mind to develop a device in some way related to the human Health that can become a medical device but can have its own market. I will write some detailed lines tomorrow drafting the project idea but the title is almost self-explanatory: a Breathing monitor and trainer for fitness. Most of the fitness exercises require a good breathing technique, as well as some other disciplines. That this board and sensors will fit perfectly the needs, involving obviously a mobile device app component but also is very useful the e-ink screen of the PSoC6

Enrico