AI Heart Monitoring Module for Cuff Pressure Wave Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional cuff-type sphygmomanometers lack the ability to provide heart health analysis and are often expensive when integrated with wireless data transmission capabilities.
Innovation Solution
An AI heart monitoring module is integrated with a cuff-type sphygmomanometer to process and analyze pressure wave data, transmitting results to an external device for further processing, expanding the device's functionality without requiring additional purchase of an advanced sphygmomanometer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional cuff-type sphygmomanometer is used, then the device structure is simple and cost is low, but the device cannot provide heart health analysis and wireless data transmission
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into two independent parts: a simple cuff-type sphygmomanometer for data collection and an AI heart monitoring module for analysis. The sphygmomanometer maintains its traditional simple structure while the AI module provides advanced functionality, resolving the contradiction between simplicity and capability.
Solution Approach 2:
An AI heart monitoring module serves as an intermediary component that connects to the traditional sphygmomanometer via tube. This module processes pressure wave data and provides heart health analysis, enabling advanced functionality without modifying the original sphygmomanometer structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If advanced sphygmomanometer with wireless transmission is used, then heart health analysis and data transmission are enabled, but the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The AI heart monitoring module combines pressure sensing, AI processing, and wireless transmission capabilities into a single add-on unit that attaches to the existing sphygmomanometer. This merging approach provides advanced functionality at lower cost compared to manufacturing a completely new advanced sphygmomanometer.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of replacing the traditional sphygmomanometer with an expensive advanced version, the system uses a copy approach by adding a separate AI module that replicates the advanced functionality of expensive devices while maintaining compatibility with affordable traditional devices.
3Loss of information
If traditional sphygmomanometer is used, then the device is affordable, but the user cannot obtain heart status information
Solution Approach 1:
The system adds a new dimension of AI-based heart health analysis to the traditional blood pressure measurement function. The AI module processes pressure wave data to extract additional heart status information, transforming a single-function device into a multi-functional system without complicating the original device structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables heart health analysis using existing cuff-type sphygmomanometers, providing affordable and convenient heart monitoring through AI processing and wireless data transmission, accessible even in rural areas with lower income.
Implementation Method 1
a pressure sensing unit, disposed insider the housing to receive the gas passing through the first port and the second port to generate pressure-pulse data
Data Source
AI summary
An AI heart monitoring module adaptive to sphygmomanometer is provided, including a housing with a first connection port and a second connection port; a pressure sensing unit disposed inside the housing for sensing pressure pulses of gas flowing through the first connection port and the second connection port to generate analog data of the pressure pulses; a processing unit disposed inside the housing, electrically connected with the pressure sensing unit, receiving the analog data of the pressure pulses, and converting the analog data of the pressure pulses into digital data of the pressure pulses, and processing the digital data with AI; a transmission unit disposed inside the housing, electrically connected with the processing unit, and outputting all or a portion of the digital data of the pressure pulses to an external device; and an indication unit disposed on the housing, electrically connected with the transmission unit, and responding to an event that the transmission unit completes outputting the digital data of the pressure pulses to the external device.