Intel and Personal Wellness

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Intel and Personal Wellness

• Trevor Pering, Intel Research

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Intel and Personal Wellness (a.k.a. Healthcare)

• The Personal Media Server
• Phone as a Personal Wellness Device
• PSI Phone System Interface
• NFC
• SHIMMER
• Dynamic Digital Health
• BUT

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The Personal Media Server
Large Screen Display
PersonalizedMobileContent
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Personal Media ServerVideo Audio Streaming
From a Cell Phone
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Architectural Overview Built on Standard
Components
PERSONAL SERVER (Mobile Phone)
ACCESS COMPUTER (Desktop PC)
SMB
FILE SERVER Samba
FILE VIEWER
HTTP
WEB SERVER Apache
IEXPLORER
RTSP
STREAMING SERVER Darwin
QUICKTIME
Neighborhood Manager
TUPLED
RPC
UPnP
WINDOWS OS
LINUX OS
UPnP
PAN PROFILE
PAN PROFILE
TCP/IP
BLUETOOTH
BLUETOOTH
RADIO
RADIO
Bluetooth
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The Personal Health Ecosystem
Environmental Sensors
Sensor Appliance
Wearable Components
Healthcare Provider
Installed Infrastructure
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Phones as a Health Platform

• Cell-phones are the personal device of choice
• The Motorola e680 Phone
• Based on Intel PXA271 processor
• Full linux distribution
• J2ME Java programming environment
• but, no sensors or sensor-network comm.
• And this phone is several years old!
• Newer phones will have
• WiFi Radios
• Advanced games and other applications
• Extensive media integration
• RFID/NFC readers
• but, still no sensors ot sensor-network
  interface!

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PSI Phone System Interface

• The PSI board (groan) is an electronic extension
  designed for modern high-end cell-phones, which
  allows researchers to extend the platform and
  interface with other emerging electronic
  ecosystems.
• e680 Personal device,and user interface.

PSI Sensing andnetwork interface.
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PSI Board Specifications

• The PSI board is a general-purpose phone
  extension platform
• MSP430 (same as TelosB)
• Interface to phone w/ SDIO extension
• 3-Axis Accelerometer
• 802.15.4 Radio
• Expansion Connector
• NFC Sensing board
• MSB board from Seattle
• .?
• Available to students on a limited basis for
  class projects!

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NFC Connecting Devices Through Touch
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• Near Field Communication (NFC) is a
  next-generation RFID standard that allows for
  two-way short-range communication between
  devices.
• Can tell when two devices are(nearly) touching
• Can be used to create secure connections between
  devices
• The NFC expansion board for PSI adds NFC
  capability to the phone platform, allowing one to
  (for example) easily connect to wearable sensors

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Shimmer Small Form-Factor Wearable Sensors

• Shimmer is a small form-factor board designed
  primarily as a wearable sensor. It is similar to
  the standard Telos motes, except it is smaller
  and has an embedded accelerometer on-board
• Runs same Tiny-OS as Telos
• Has same 802.15.4 radio
• 3-axis accelerometer
• Compact expansion connector
• Available to students on a limited basis for
  projects!

• Shimmer is a wearable sensor, while PSI is
  intended as a phone attachment. They are
  basically the same electronics with different
  form-factors

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Dynamically Connecting Wearable Sensors

• creating an ecosystem of health-related
  technologies that provide a highly mobile
  capability tightly integrated with supporting
  computing infrastructure.

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Health Management
DynamicDigitalHealth
Dynamic integration within-room monitoring
infrastructure
Integration with a Doctors mobile workflow
Bringing personal historical wearable sensor data
into hospital environment
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BUT Fundamentals of Platform Design
How the market will mobilize around the idea and
make it a success.
In order to be successful, a brilliant idea needs
to address all three aspects of the product
ecosystem.
Why people will use it, and why it will serve
their (unmet) needs.
What it does, and how it will do what it needs to
do.
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Technology What is the product?

• Success stories?
• Failures?
• What is a technology that is so wonderful that
  people will use/buy it despite a horrible
  business model or no compelling use?

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Business How will economics support the product?

• Success stories?
• Failures?
• Is there something where the business model was
  so good that it could overcome bad technologies
  or dismal user experiences?

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Users Why will users want the product?

• Success stories?
• Failures?
• What is a usage model that is so compelling that
  users will buy/use it despite a horrible business
  model or bad technology?

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BUT, TUB, UTB, UBT, BTU, or TBU?

• Project tend to start off with one primary
  driver
• Business model built on existing technology
  feeding or existing uses
• New technology into old businesses or established
  use models
• New uses found for existing technology and
  business channels
• Each category has its associated element of risk
  and uncertainty
• but they also have their associated reward and
  payback.
• The important thing is to understand the user
  need your product meets, how it is enabled by the
  underlying technology, and how it will be
  supported by its business plan.
• Specifically, how is it different than other
  products out there?
• Hat trick?

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Summary Personal Healthcare Wellness

• Technology?
• Emerging world of personal mobile wearable
  electronics.
• But what are the specific technologies that will
  make a difference?
• Users?
• Ubiquitous desire to be healthy and well.
• But what are the specific cases that need a new
  product?
• Business?
• Healthcare is a very large and growing industry.
• But who will pay for something different, and
  why?