Combining mobile phone technology with wearable infrared sensors creates data to observe epilepsy episodes at home with unprecedented contextual information for clinicians to create treatment plans.
Product Design
Healthcare
Design and innovation from an early stage to the functional prototype.
Continuous at-home wearability for patients, easy setup for home monitoring, patient comfort, sleek and minimal video station that can blend in any home environment, continuous multi channel quality data acquisition, tracker and video station designed for efficiency, long duration performance, user testing prototypes simulated with close to final look and feel and functionality.
In-depth information regarding triggers of epileptic seizures from video EEG’s can hugely aide customised treatment plans and thereby positive patient outcomes. In its current form, it's a highly resource intensive, expensive diagnostic procedure, involving hospitalisation for a week and hence is accessible only to very affluent patients.
Mocxa’s innovation challenge involved creating a portable mobile phone based setup that enables video EEG monitoring in the patients home with equal efficacy.
The solution system consists of two components:
1) The tracker with infrared LED’s to be worn by the patient continuously for the duration of monitoring.
2) The video station that acquires signals from both the tracker and the EEG leads, time stamps and blends the data using proprietary software for the clinicians to correlate brain activity with the physical and environmental factors affecting the patient.
To design the tracker, it was a huge challenge to understand what epilepsy patients go through, the event of the seizure etc, because the COVID lockdown posed restrictions on conventional research methods. The video station design challenges were related to making it discrete and unobtrusive in the home environment, to enable the patient to continue daily activities as normally as possible. Using roleplay, other innovative simulation techniques and a thorough anthropometric study, we devised solutions that were tested and iterated quickly.
Patient comfort was the primary focus, leading to a comfortable lycra based head cap, to secure the EEG leads and wires in place and to provide a relatively clean surface for the tracker to be worn on. Made of non-allergenic biocompatible silicone, it is designed for long hours of continuous usage. The video station is a clean, minimal device mounted on a tripod at a height, to enable 360 degree viewing and monitoring and yet look like a familiar household product.
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