Modular Analyte Detector for Mobile Communication Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for real-time monitoring and rapid detection of viruses, biomarkers, and analytes in bodily fluid samples, which poses challenges in ensuring proper positioning of detectors and adequate sample flow to sensors.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring system is developed that includes a detector component, communication circuitry, and a power source, which can be selectively attached to personal communication devices. This system generates data in response to analyte presence and communicates it wirelessly to associated receivers for processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If detectors are integrated into portable devices, then real-time monitoring capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is divided into separate functional modules: a detector component with sensors, a communication circuitry module, and a power source module. These modular components can be independently developed, tested, and replaced, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining real-time monitoring capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The detector component is designed to detect multiple types of analytes including viruses, biomarkers, and other biological substances using various sensing mechanisms. This multi-functional detector reduces the need for multiple separate devices, thereby reducing complexity while improving monitoring reliability.
2Reliability
If sample flow mechanisms are added to ensure adequate analyte delivery, then detection reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs capillary action and pressure differential mechanisms to drive sample flow through the detector. These passive fluidic systems eliminate the need for complex active pumping mechanisms while ensuring adequate analyte delivery to sensors, thereby improving detection reliability without significantly increasing device complexity.
3Productivity
If wireless communication capabilities are integrated, then data transmission speed is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication circuitry operates in periodic bursts rather than continuously, transmitting data only when analyte detection events occur or at scheduled intervals. This periodic communication mode maintains high data transmission speed when needed while dramatically reducing average energy consumption to extend battery operation.
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AI summary
A monitoring system for monitoring, measuring and detecting analytes in an environment or in test samples from an environment. The monitoring system generates data in response to the presence of at least one analyte. The monitoring system is configured to communicate the data to an associated receiver such as personal communication device or the like for processing. The monitoring system can be in the form of a selectively attachable component.