Urine Biomarker Monitoring With Scheduled Analysis Windows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing urine analysis devices require users to actively remember to perform regular biomarker monitoring, leading to a high mental load and risk of forgetting, especially for individuals who need to regularly check multiple biomarkers.
Innovation Solution
A urine analysis device with control circuitry and an internal clock that implements personalized measurement plans with temporal analyzing windows, automatically collecting and analyzing urine samples at predetermined times based on user profiles, reducing the need for user intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the user manually launches urine analysis to monitor biomarkers, then the analysis can be performed, but the user experiences high mental load and may forget to test regularly
Solution Approach 1:
The urine analysis device performs self-service by automatically collecting urine samples and executing analyses based on pre-configured measurement plans stored in its memory. The device monitors its own operational schedule and initiates analyses without requiring user intervention, thereby eliminating the mental load on users while ensuring regular biomarker monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The device performs preliminary action by pre-configuring measurement plans in its memory before actual use. These plans include predetermined schedules, biomarker lists, and operational parameters that are prepared in advance. When the device is activated, it executes these pre-planned schedules automatically, ensuring regular monitoring without requiring users to remember or manually schedule each test.
2Reliability
If the device performs continuous urine analysis, then biomarker monitoring is comprehensive, but test strips are consumed faster reducing cartridge lifetime
Solution Approach 1:
The device implements periodic action by executing urine analyses only at predetermined intervals according to configured measurement plans. Rather than continuous analysis, the device performs analyses at specific scheduled times (e.g., daily at 8 AM, weekly on Mondays), which ensures comprehensive biomarker monitoring while minimizing unnecessary test strip consumption and extending cartridge lifetime.
Solution Approach 2:
The device applies parameter changes by dynamically adjusting analysis parameters based on stored measurement plans. The control circuitry modifies operational parameters such as analysis timing, selected biomarkers, and sampling frequency according to pre-configured schedules, enabling comprehensive monitoring when needed while avoiding unnecessary analyses that would deplete test strips unnecessarily.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the device analyzes urine samples from any user, then all users can be monitored, but unauthorized samples may be analyzed wasting resources
Solution Approach 1:
The device performs preliminary identification of the user before executing any urine analysis. The control circuitry identifies the user (e.g., through recognition systems) and verifies authorization against stored measurement plans before initiating sample collection and analysis. This preliminary verification prevents unauthorized samples from being analyzed, wasting resources on unauthenticated users while maintaining the ability to monitor multiple authorized users.
Solution Approach 2:
The device applies local quality by tailoring analysis parameters and access rights to specific authorized users. The control circuitry distinguishes between different users and applies different levels of access and analysis protocols based on individual authorization. Only authorized users can trigger or be associated with specific measurement plans, ensuring that resources are not wasted on unauthorized samples while maintaining versatile multi-user monitoring capability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables easy and regular biomarker monitoring without additional mental effort, ensuring timely testing and extending the life of the device by minimizing unnecessary analyses, while preventing unauthorized samples and optimizing resource usage.
Implementation Method 1
collecting, by the urine analysis device, a urine sample from a urine stream of a urinating user
Implementation Method 2
The device is to be lodged in a toilet and collects a sample of a urine stream before performing an optical analysis
Data Source
AI summary
A method of monitoring at least one biomarker with a measurement plan including a datum related to a predetermined biomarker to analyze and at least one temporal analyzing window to analyze the predetermined biomarker. At least one of collecting a urine sample and analyzing the urine sample is performed at least in response to determining that an internal time value is within the at least one temporal analyzing window of the measurement plan.