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Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Part 1, Workflow

Calling all InnOvaTors!

 

imageWe want to push the boundaries of forward-looking, connected applications by engaging the IoT innovators through conceptual challenges. The insights you deliver will fuel conversations and drive change when we take them to suppliers and major industry players in the electronics world at this year's Elektronica show.

 

So to launch this new InnOvaTors initiative, our very own rscasny has cooked up a real-world scenario that would benefit massively from an innovative IoT solution that we'd like you to conceptualise.

 

Your opinions and ideas on the subject are important, as we want these concepts to inform the next generation of IoT development and (perhaps more importantly), adoption.

 

Let's take a look at Randy's scenario before we go any further.

 

Design a Home Patient Monitoring System with Notification and Alert Capabilities

Background

Among the numerous types of innovations that are expected to be fostered by Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, smart-connected healthcare solutions will perhaps be the most important one for millions of elderly people who live alone. In the UK 3.5 million people over the age of 65 live alone, and almost 70% of the women in this age group. The U.S has a similar trend with 11.8 million, and nearly half of the women over the age of 75 living alone.

 

This number is expected to increase as the growth in people over age 65 is projected to double from 43.1 million in 2012 to 83.7 million in 2050, according to the U.S Census Bureau. Whether an elderly person lives alone by choice or necessity, this living arrangement can pose a potential health risk as physical and cognitive impairment becomes evident.

Your Challenge: Helping a Stroke Patient Who Falls

A typical example of the challenge that the elderly face while living alone is Mrs. Jones. She is 79 years-old and has been living alone successfully for ten years since her husband passed away. While she has not had any problems during this period of time, Mrs. Jones recently suffered a minor stroke that led to numbness in her extremities and an overall weakness in strength but did not appear to be life-changing until she began losing her balance and falling in her apartment

 

Mrs. Jones’s daughter suggested to her mother that it was time to consider moving into a nursing home for safety’s sake. Mrs. Jones dismissed the idea out of a desire to remain independent. Her daughter discussed this situation with Mrs. Jones's doctor who said her options were limited. Beyond a live-in caregiver, home nurse visits, or home monitoring systems, which had limited benefits as they are currently designed, there was little else to do.

 

 

The InnOvaTors Approach to IoT

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How would you solve the problem above through creative and innovative IoT design?

 

It seems to us that a complete IoT solution is built upon the support of three component pillars; the nodes/sensors, the gateway and the cloud. But before we delve into specific applications of the Three Legs of IoT (which we'll do in more detail over the next couple of weeks), the workflow process of IoT design seems like it warrants inspection.

 

What's your advice on designing an Internet of Things?

Do you have an established, unified workflow, or does each application demand its own unique approach?

 

In the comments section below, we'd like to hear your thoughts and advice on how to plan an IoT solution. Don't worry too much about the technical specifics of each element just yet; what's needed here is the initial workflow that'll help to shape a robust and innovative solution further down the line. An IoT bible, if you like, that you can confidently refer to when things get chaotic, confusing or fly off on a tangent.

 

Tell us where the industry can improve its efforts, where the gaps are in off-the-shelf solutions, and what your design methods are that will bolster and boost the expanding world of IoT application.

 

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 7 years ago +7
    Hi! What a great idea, to have an IoT guide type document.. Here are some initial thoughts, I've probably missed loads but this was just the stuff I could immediately think of. Probably I'd want to intimately…
  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago +6
    IoT cannot be shoehorned into a single paradigm - that would cripple its potential. Some companies that make a complete product line for a given application area may re-use their IP to leverage their investment…
  • rscasny
    rscasny over 7 years ago +6
    There were a lot of great comments in this first part of " Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation - Workflow. " From all the comments, it looks like the workflow process for this IoT scenario breaks down into…
  • rscasny
    rscasny over 7 years ago in reply to pihaume

    Nice website. But can you offer something more than what seems like pure promotion. So, you are in the business of commericalizing the Pi. Great! I would love to have the Pi utilized in this scenario. Could you outline how you would. thanks.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Thanks for the link. It is a good step in the right direction, although probably not quite able to monitor medically accurate vital signs yet.

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 7 years ago in reply to dougw

    Douglas Wong wrote:

     

    ...For example the current crop of chest belts that monitor heart rate, respiration, skin temperature and posture are used by atheletes, but it is extremely rare for even motivated atheletes to wear one 24/7...

     

    Just noticed this quote from Garmin about one of their fitness bands:

     

    "24/7 Wearable

    vívofit 2 follows your progress 24/7 and shows your steps, calories, distance and time of day on its easy-to-read, backlit display. Set the sleep mode when you go to bed and it will monitor your rest. At Garmin Connect, you can see your total sleep hours as well as periods of movement and restful sleep. vívofit 2 is water-resistant¹, so you can shower or get caught in the rain, worry-free. And thanks to its 1-year battery life, you can keep this activity tracker on your wrist around the clock, helping you turn good intentions into lifelong habits."

    https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/giftguide/vivofit-2/prod504038.html

     

    Which sounds as if there is perhaps a market expectation for everyday people to start wearing this sensor technology 24/7 to monitor not only daytime activity but also sleep activity.

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  • element14Dave
    element14Dave over 7 years ago

    Help Us Put the IoT in Innovation: Part 2, Nodes

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 7 years ago

    Think about IoT in this manner. Networking for: people to machine, machine to people, machine1 to machine2, and machine2 to machine1.

    The bible blueprint to IoT revolves around focusing on networking, specifically the enabling of continuous networking to scale from a platform focal core concept.

    Here is the link to the bible approach:

     

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/opening-up-pandoras-box-iot-market-space-my-perspective-roger-pena?trk=mp-author-card

     

    This post shows how IoT elements fit together.

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  • Blacksheep32
    Blacksheep32 over 7 years ago

    Here would be my steps:

    Node/Sensors

    1. Set solution boundaries: Where does the solution begin or end? When the client enters the house and leaves the house? 24/7? etc.

    2. Establish the normal state- this would literally be the workflow, what does the client normally do on a day to day basis, the expected response.

    3. What are the medical evidence based assessment criteria for the affliction requiring monitoring

    4. What are the available monitoring devices available that meet the criteria listed in 3.

         a. What are the power/connectivity capabilities of these devices and can they be maintained by a person that meets the criteria of 2.

    DECISION POINT - select device

    Gateway

    BLE?

    (I don't have a lot of experience in this part)

    Cloud

    Maintain security and access with client acting as gatekeeper

    (I don't have a lot of experience in this part)

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  • pihaume
    pihaume over 7 years ago

    Cost and ease of use are key factors. Technology readily available.

     

    IoT solutions built around the Raspberry PI. Currently in commercial use as part of a smart home energy management system called RetroSAVE. www.pihaume.com. site is being built.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 7 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    My experience is that people almost universally don't like wearing sensors for a lot of reasons:

    they are big, heavy, cumbersome, they flop around, they take time to apply, they restrict movement, they take energy to wear, they are costly, they don't provide useful information, they provide information to the wrong people, they are a tough pill to swallow, they chafe, they adversely affect clothing or skin, they require maintenance, the data requires analysis, etc. the list seems endless.

    To be motivated to wear a sensor, there needs to be a significant benefit. For example the current crop of chest belts that monitor heart rate, respiration, skin temperature and posture are used by atheletes, but it is extremely rare for even motivated atheletes to wear one 24/7. These sensors don't actually tell you anything you don't already know because your body already has a vast number of sensors built-in.

    Similarly if everyone were wearing the currect crop of health monitoring sensors it would be rare for the sensors to result in medical alarms and very rare for such alarms to cause responses other than what would happen without sensors.

    Sensors will get better, lower cost and less onerous, but so far the better the sensor the more invasive it is. I expect the same people who get flu shots today will end up with implanted sensors when they are viable. They like the insurance more than they dislike the pain of installation.

    We will all be wearing a lot more technology in the near future.

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    beacon_dave over 7 years ago in reply to rscasny

    Randall - yes, this is exactly what I'm getting at. Would you want to wear a pendant that looked like that all day, swinging around etc. ?

     

    What if the technology was integrated into the clothes, spectacles, etc. in such a way that it was what you had been used to wearing for the past 60 years ? Would that make a difference ? People get set in their ways as they get older, so the more invisible / non-invasive the technology then perhaps the less  likely it is to be left on the table.

     

    Also some people just fail to understand how the technology works. Some may think that by leaving it on the table by the couch it is still doing its thing.

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    beacon_dave over 7 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

    Enrico - perhaps the fashion angle isn't robust enough, but what if your everyday things such as reading glasses could take regular retina scans which once uploaded to the cloud could potentially be analysed and be used to detect an increase in blood pressure, (or detect a pupil dilation abnormality for the likes of a stroke). The appropriate medical centre could be alerted via cloud analytics.

     

    Similar with 'intelligent clothes' which don't have to be a fashion statement like a lot of wearables are currently, but instead just styled on everyday things that are likely to be worn, but have the appropriate sensor technology added to them.

     

    In both cases the participant is now wearing a sensor but without having to change their lifestyle significantly to accommodate it. The question is, is this enough to affect a change in the reluctance to wear a sensor ?

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