Micro-Server Home Sleep Monitoring Data Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sleep study methods require participants to visit sleep laboratories, leading to inconvenience, potential infection risks, non-representative data, privacy concerns, and lack of control over shared data, necessitating a solution for home-based monitoring that addresses privacy and data security issues while preserving data for researchers.
Innovation Solution
A physiological data monitoring system comprising physiological sensors and a micro-server that allows users to record and control the sharing of their data, enabling users to withhold specific data subsets from sharing by deleting or refraining from transmitting them, ensuring secure storage and transmission only with user consent.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If participants visit sleep laboratories for sleep studies, then data can be collected under controlled conditions, but participants experience inconvenience, infection risks, and privacy concerns while losing control over their data sharing
Solution Approach 1:
A home monitoring system with sensors and a micro-server acts as an intermediary between the participant's home environment and the research facility, enabling data collection without requiring participant travel while maintaining research oversight through remote data access
2Ease of operation
If home monitoring systems are deployed, then participant convenience and privacy are improved, but participants lack control over data sharing with researchers
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides dynamic data sharing control where participants can adjust their privacy preferences and data sharing settings at any time through a mobile device interface, allowing the system to adapt to changing participant needs while maintaining continuous monitoring capability
3Loss of information
If all recorded physiological data is shared with researchers, then research value is maximized, but participant privacy and data security concerns are exacerbated
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments data control into different categories and time periods, allowing participants to selectively share different types of physiological data or control sharing on a per-night basis, thereby providing granular privacy management that balances research needs with personal comfort
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AI summary
In some embodiments, a method may include providing a system, where the system includes one or more physiological sensors and a micro-server that includes a communication interface, memory storing instructions, and a processor. The method may include instructing a subject to deploy the one or more sensors at a residence. The method may include receiving physiological data detected by the one or more sensors, storing data in the memory of the micro-server representative of the physiological data detected by the one or more sensors for later sharing. The method may include receiving an instruction to withhold an indicated set of the stored data from sharing and withholding the indicated set of the stored data from sharing. The withholding may include deleting the indicated set of the stored data from the memory of the micro-server and/or refraining from sending the indicated set of the stored data to an external device.