Droid Sensors, Mobile Sensors

Low-Cost Mobile Phone Eye Test for iPhone

NETRA (Near-Eye Tool for Refractive Assessment) uses a phone's LCD display(iPhone) and intelligent software to administer a quick, effective and accurate vision test that patients can perform at home. he NETRA test consists of a small plastic device clipped onto the phone's screen. The patient looks into a tiny lens, presses the phone's arrow keys to make a set of parallel green and red lines overlap, bringing view into sharp focus, and repeats this eight times for each eye as the lines appea...

Apple Patent Application Uses Heart Rhythm to ID Users

Apple has filed a patent application that shows an interesting way the firm is looking at telling if the user holding a future iPhone is authorized to use it. The app shows an iPhone with sensors in the case that reads the users heart rhythm. Patent: link Source: link

Medical Sensor for Asthmatics – Breathe In, Breathe Out

Asthmatics should regularly monitor their airways to determine if there’s any deterioration, but checking in to see a doctor that frequently is time consuming so designer Felix created Blue Flow. The system combines a peak flow monitor with mobile phone software. Information is wirelessly transmitted to the phone for your doctor to monitor. The information gathered can be used to determine the best course of action since the condition is finicky and changes based on a number of health and env...

Plastic sensor monitor body functions

The German research organization(the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM in Munich) has announced that they are working on a chip that can detect deep vein thrombosis using only a single drop of blood, as well as a compact wristband that measures temperature, skin moisture and more. More: link

Lifeline with AutoAlert Option

Royal Philips Electronics has introduced Lifeline with AutoAlert, a medical alert service(based on sensors) which is able to detect falls and call for help. More info: link

An Implantable Glucose Sensor Could Help Diabetics Stay Healthy

It is a rice grain-sized solar powered implantable sensor, which hides underneath the skin for about a year at a stretch and measures the blood glucose levels consistently all the while. The sensor send data to a variety of portable electronic devices such as cellphones and PDAs, alerting the patient each time the blood sugar levels go high. Clinical trials of the device are expected to being in two years, while the sensor could go on sale by 2017. Source: link

Sensaris city project – based on mobile sensors

Introducing the real-time environmental mapping project, beased on The City Senspod Sensor: Volunteers carry mobile sensors and data is displayed in real time using Augmented Reality (Layar) and Google Maps. Project to be started this spring in The Netherlands. More info: link

The wireless sensors – The future of medicine

From TED TALKS: Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor(with help of mobile sensors) our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices, sensors in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds.

iBAC alcometer

The iBAC  -  an alcometer (a small breathalyser unit connected to the mobile device using Bluetooth), a phone application and a web site for tracking the readings of multiple users. It can be useful for transport or other businesses that need their employees to be alcohol-free on the job. More info & purchase: link

Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed

The U-M system’s processor, solar cells, and battery are all contained in its tiny frame, which measures 2.5 by 3.5 by 1 millimeters. It is 1,000 times smaller than comparable commercial counterparts. The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices. It could vastly improve the efficiency and cost of current environmental sensor networks designed to detect movement or track air and water quality. The sensor spends most of its tim...