I-Corps: A Sensor Technology Box for Smart Health

I-Corps：智能健康传感器技术盒

• 批准号: 1559752
• 负责人: Nirmalya Roy
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-11-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1559752&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Sensor; Technology; Box; Smart

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the U.S. population of people aged 65 and up will grow more than double in between 2010 and 2050. The market for remote patient monitoring is expected to grow from $10.6 billion in 2012 to $21.2 billion in 2017. Inspired by this growing market need, this project aims to build an integrated and reliable sensor system that can be deployed for independent living applications across multiple homes for monitoring functional, behavioral and cognitive health of older adults. This enables the older adults to live independently in their own home environment and helps them age gracefully. The project targets to develop a low-cost interoperable platform technology which is highly-available and affordable by low-income group. The sensor prototypes and services developed in this project will be deployed in retirement community and assisted living centers in greater Baltimore metropolitan area. The scope of the project involves designing a low-cost solution connecting the varied sensor technologies and diverse software platforms to an end-user controlled system for independent living applications. The project aims to minimize the sensor malfunctioning, power consumption, network resource usage, connectivity and bandwidth requirements; producing a scalable and reliable system that can be rapidly deployed in home environment with minimal overhead. The specific goals of the project include: (1) design inexpensive miniaturized ARM-based motion sensor nodes with high reliability, (2) integrate the sensors with service-oriented architecture and models, (3) develop activity recognition algorithms, and (4) evaluate the overall system performance. These goals will be reevaluated through rigorous testing, deployment and customers' feedback during the I-Corps curriculum. By streamlining the proposed solutions in a low-cost, reliable and interoperable system the project is expected to accelerate the rapid development and deployment of a one-stop technological solution for remote home health and wellness monitoring. The team will investigate the potential market opportunity by interviewing the customers, develop proof-of-concept prototype and deploy that in real settings for the validations. The feedback from the users will be incorporated in the prototype design phase and a business plan will be postulated at the end of the I-Corps program.

美国人口普查局报告称，2010 年至 2050 年间，美国 65 岁及以上人口将增长一倍以上。远程患者监护市场预计将从 2012 年的 106 亿美元增长到 2017 年的 212 亿美元。随着市场需求的不断增长，该项目旨在构建一个集成且可靠的传感器系统，可部署用于跨多个家庭的独立生活应用，以监控功能、行为和老年人的认知健康。这使得老年人能够在自己的家庭环境中独立生活，并帮助他们优雅地老去。该项目的目标是开发一种低收入群体高度可用且负担得起的低成本、可互操作的平台技术。该项目开发的传感器原型和服务将部署在大巴尔的摩都市区的退休社区和辅助生活中心。该项目的范围涉及设计一种低成本解决方案，将各种传感器技术和各种软件平台连接到最终用户控制的独立生活应用系统。该项目旨在最大限度地减少传感器故障、功耗、网络资源使用、连接和带宽要求；生产一个可扩展且可靠的系统，可以以最小的开销快速部署在家庭环境中。该项目的具体目标包括：(1) 设计廉价且具有高可靠性的基于 ARM 的小型运动传感器节点，(2) 将传感器与面向服务的架构和模型集成，(3) 开发活动识别算法，以及 (4)评估整体系统性能。这些目标将在 I-Corps 课程期间通过严格的测试、部署和客户反馈进行重新评估。通过在低成本、可靠和可互操作的系统中简化拟议的解决方案，该项目预计将加速远程家庭健康和健康监测一站式技术解决方案的快速开发和部署。该团队将通过采访客户来调查潜在的市场机会，开发概念验证原型并将其部署在实际环境中进行验证。用户的反馈将纳入原型设计阶段，并在 I-Corps 计划结束时制定商业计划。