Project
| # | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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| 12 | SENSING OF VITALS FOR ELECTRONIC ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY |
Jonathan Peloquin Sailesh Subashbabu Ye Dong Kim |
Nicholas Ratajczyk | final_paper0.docx presentation0.pptx proposal0.pdf |
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| Therapalz is a product designed to provide comfort and therapeutic care for Alzheimer’s patients. The goal of our project is to implement multiple sensors within the Therapalz electronic therapy assistant to monitor heartbeat/pulse, body temperature, and breathing of the patient, as well as the 3D position of the Therapal at all times. This information would then be relayed to the patient’s caregivers to provide a less-intrusive means of collecting important data, reducing the stress both the patients and caregivers are subject to. Our project is an innovation upon a pre-existing invention. It will add more features to a product that is unique in the Alzheimer’s care field and help with treatment of the disease. Regular stuffed animals are sometimes used for the same function of providing comfort to Alzheimer’s patients, but they lack the life-like quality Therapalz provides with its reactivity to touch and the health-monitoring benefits that our innovation would provide. In order to retain the authentic feel of the Therapalz stuffed animal we would place our sensors in areas such as the paws, neck, or ears so as not to be too obvious to the patients. Our project would be developed in a modular way so that each sensor will send the data to an app that can be used by caregivers as needed, and allow for easy integration of additional sensors if necessary. This should require the sensors themselves as well as a microcontroller to handle the data they provide. Link to Discussion: https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/pace/view-topic.asp?id=27487 Team Members: Sailesh Subashbabu (subashb2) John Peloquin (peloqui2) Josh Kaneko (ykim324) |
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