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32 Turning Tracker for Pressure Ulcers
Area Award: Healthcare
Bradford Kearbey
Robert Paul
Jose Sanchez Vicarte design_document0.pdf
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Bed sores are a huge problem, predominantly in low-budget medical institutions. One of the main causes is in the inaction of nursing assistants (CNA's) to flip the patients regularly - every two hours. The simple cause of this is bad organization. CNA's are overwhelmed and simply forget.

Our project solves this problem. We have a two hour timer for each patient that gets reset if they are flipped. To measure the flipping, we will be using a pressure pad (will have to make one) to measure changes in patient weight distribution. If the nurse forgets to flip the patient, a reminder is sent to their phone.

There are solutions to this problem out there (including "self-flippers" and alternating pressure mattresses), but these are primarily more expensive and rare to find. Our product would most likely used in nursing homes, where budgets are primarily low.

Smart Frisbee

Ryan Moser, Blake Yerkes, James Younce

Smart Frisbee

Featured Project

The idea of this project would be to improve upon the 395 project ‘Smart Frisbee’ done by a group that included James Younce. The improvements would be to create a wristband with low power / short range RF capabilities that would be able to transmit a user ID to the frisbee, allowing the frisbee to know what player is holding it. Furthermore, the PCB from the 395 course would be used as a point of reference, but significantly redesigned in order to introduce the transceiver, a high accuracy GPS module, and any other parts that could be modified to decrease power consumption. The frisbee’s current sensors are a GPS module, and an MPU 6050, which houses an accelerometer and gyroscope.

The software of the system on the frisbee would be redesigned and optimized to record various statistics as well as improve gameplay tracking features for teams and individual players. These statistics could be player specific events such as the number of throws, number of catches, longest throw, fastest throw, most goals, etc.

The new hardware would improve the frisbee’s ability to properly moderate gameplay and improve “housekeeping”, such as ensuring that an interception by the other team in the end zone would not be counted as a score. Further improvements would be seen on the software side, as the frisbee in it’s current iteration will score as long as the frisbee was thrown over the endzone, and the only way to eliminate false goals is to press a button within a 10 second window after the goal.