As a part of Section 065 of Drexel University’s Engineering Design Lab III (ENGR-103) course, Group 10 took the initiative to create a wearable biomedical device, named the PipBoy. Built on an Arduino Nano, this is a low-cost, low-power device that will track biological parameters such as beats per minute (BPM), intermittent-beat interval (IBI), and body temperature. While there are many devices capable of sensing body vitals like these, the PipBoy is an affordable alternative to these gadgets, and also pairs with Android smartphones through a companion application to send diagnostics and alerts directly to the wearer’s phone.
The long-term purpose of the PipBoy is to introduce a cheap and easy way for doctors and physicians to monitor patients and their vitals remotely. Just as this device connects to an Android application via Bluetooth, it would connect to hospital networks through the internet and allow medical professionals to keep track of their patients’ health without having to keep them in the hospital. Currently, the working prototype of the device is meant to measure only the three aforementioned parameters, and interfaces with an in-device screen and the companion Android application to display the information it receives from its sensors.
Included below is an initial mock-up of the expected design of the PipBoy. While this, along with multiple other facets of the project are vulnerable to major changes throughout the course of the 10 week time frame, the device will continue to follow the format of a wearable wrist device that measures biomedical parameters.
The long-term purpose of the PipBoy is to introduce a cheap and easy way for doctors and physicians to monitor patients and their vitals remotely. Just as this device connects to an Android application via Bluetooth, it would connect to hospital networks through the internet and allow medical professionals to keep track of their patients’ health without having to keep them in the hospital. Currently, the working prototype of the device is meant to measure only the three aforementioned parameters, and interfaces with an in-device screen and the companion Android application to display the information it receives from its sensors.
Included below is an initial mock-up of the expected design of the PipBoy. While this, along with multiple other facets of the project are vulnerable to major changes throughout the course of the 10 week time frame, the device will continue to follow the format of a wearable wrist device that measures biomedical parameters.
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