I-Corps: A Low-cost and Non-contact Respiration Monitoring Method for COVID-19 Screening and Prognosis

I-Corps：一种用于 COVID-19 筛查和预后的低成本、非接触式呼吸监测方法

• 批准号: 2336852
• 负责人: Sabit Ekin
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2336852&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Low; cost; Non; contact

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the ability to monitor respiration using a low-cost and non-contact sensing method. Studies show that real-time health monitoring devices will reach a market value of over $65 billion by 2022. Given the high prevalence of lifestyle-associated disorders, long-term continuous monitoring of physiological parameters becomes important for many healthcare cases such as apnea and for human-computer-interaction applications. The anticipated benefits of the technology in the current COVID-19 outbreak include, but are not limited to, helping to reduce the load of current (expensive and limited) respiration monitoring medical equipment, being deployable in open-spaces and being highly desirable for the drastically increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients. Further, since respiration monitoring is a ubiquitous element of medicine, this work may also impact the entire health care community, from patients in their homes, to doctor’s offices, to large medical institutions and industries. This I-Corps project involves the technological advancement required to enable the proposed low-cost and non-contact respiration sensing method. This method represents a substantial departure from traditional approaches to wireless respiration monitoring and is poised to make significant contributions in this area. The proposed technology is timely given the critical worldwide impact of COVID-19. The proposed solution is adequately deployable in home environments (e.g. living rooms) and hospitals, etc. to remotely monitor respiration for COVID-19 screening and prognosis. The proposed approach allows very low-cost, safe, easy, continuous, and non-obtrusive gathering of respiration data — a critical input for cost-effective and proactive treatment and management of subjects with COVID-19 and other chronic respiratory conditions. This project will allow the team to better understand the unmet needs by conducting customer discoveries and interviews, develop a viable business model, and learn the desired features for developing a compelling minimum viable product.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该 I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是能够使用低成本和非接触式传感方法来监测呼吸。研究表明，到 2022 年，实时健康监测设备的市场价值将达到超过 650 亿美元。鉴于与生活方式相关的疾病的高发病率，长期连续监测生理参数对于许多医疗保健案例（例如呼吸暂停）和人机交互应用来说变得非常重要。包括但不限于帮助减少当前（昂贵且有限的）呼吸监测医疗设备的负载，可部署在开放空间中，并且对于数量急剧增加的 COVID-19 患者来说非常理想。监测是医学中无处不在的要素，这项工作也可能影响整个医疗保健界，从患者家中到医生办公室，再到大型医疗机构和行业。该 I-Corps 项目涉及实现拟议项目所需的技术进步。低成本和该方法与传统的无线呼吸监测方法有很大不同，鉴于 COVID-19 的全球影响，该技术有望在这一领域做出重大贡献。可以充分部署在家庭环境（例如客厅）和医院等中，以远程监测呼吸以进行 COVID-19 筛查和预后。所提出的方法可以以非常低成本、安全、简单、连续且非干扰性的方式收集呼吸。数据——对患有 COVID-19 和其他慢性呼吸道疾病的受试者进行经济高效、主动治疗和管理的关键输入。该项目将使团队能够通过进行客户发现和访谈来更好地了解未满足的需求，开发可行的业务模式。 ，并了解开发引人注目的最低可行产品所需的功能。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。