Our Goals For Open Source Health/Fitness/Physiology Data Aggregator
Ira Laefsky
Mario:
Below is some information from our Google Groups Physiosense (to which if you like I can send you an invitation) which describe some of our goals for an Open Source (probably Linux) Health Fitness and Physiology Data Aggregator
Which will communicate with an Internet of Things website(s) and maintain communication with a variety of proprietary (e.g. Fitbit, Zeo, Neurosky, Basis, Emotiv) Devices and be interfaced with DIY (Self-Built Sensors like GSR, Pulse (HRV), SPO2 and Respiration. You can correspond with me at lae...@comcast.net and I will send you an invitation to our Google Group Physiosense
The Physiosense project is an attempt at building an open source framework/platform for DIY human biology and physiology sensors. There are many excellent sensor options on the market, but no common platform for collecting the data those devices report.
Physiosense will work towards these (and other) common goals:
An open source data storage format, flexible enough to track data for many types of sensors, as well as annotation
A hardware platform (or series of platforms) based on open source tools to collect and store data
A communications framework to efficiently transmit our human body data to data consumption systems such as smart-phones and data aggregation sites
Hacker friendly interfaces for commercial products as well as our own DIY sensors, such that all devices may be adapted to the hardware platform over a common interface
On Monday, June 25, 2012 6:55:33 PM UTC-4, Ira Laefsky wrote:
I'd like to throw out some requirements, desires for the possible system we seek to build:
1. First that it accommodate both digital devices communicating over a serial protocol and up to a half dozen Analog Inputs so that we can gather data both from pre-made/appliance type sensors like Neurosky, Zeo, the SEEED Studio Pulse Ox, a Polar Heart-Rate Sensor, etc, and Analog Electrode and Op Amp Analog Sensors (such as GSR, a home built pulse sensor, EOG (eye movement via muscle potentials) and or Facial EMG measurements,
2. That it have some means of aggregating and routing data both from analog and digital sources to a cloud based Internet of Things Service via Cable Ethernet or Wireless connections.
3. That it provide some local data storage via USB either (or both of an SD CARD) and or a USB-Disk Drive (or SSD)
4. That it be safe (no ground loops), provide isolation, and possibly offer a battery powered option It shouldn't seek to meed the ridiculously expensive and lengthy approval process of FDA devices--note that systems like BIOPAC Data Acquisition Systems are not approved as Medical Devices but must be safe enough to avoid product liability.
5. That some Control and Display Option exist to allow Oscilloscope like display of Waveforms, and Menu-Driven Input of System Menus. This could be prototyped by the T35 LCD on the Gadgeteer and might eventually involve a Tablet-type Device or PC Display.
6. Both a fully Stand-Alone Data Acquisition and Router Device should be considered, as well as a DAQ-Data-Logger System attached to a PC like the Data Jack DAQ,
I am making this proposal in the spirit of a "Strawman", to learn the shared goals among our "Physiosense" group and to determine what is possible with the capabilities we already have or may soon acquire in Physiology Data Acquisition and Measurement. Please let me know what subset or superset of these goals is possible and what desires/aims we share rather than just telling me what is impossible or what already exists elsewhere.
Emery Premeaux (MRE), our group owner, has presented the notion of Open Science./Open Lab Hardware on his blog and the possibility that hobbyist and Open Hardware Engineers can design inexpensive, powerful and cost-effective to meet the needs both of hobbyist science, and academic/professional laborabotories where the cost of existing laboratory equipment is prohibitive. In our area of interest
electro/psycho/physiology equipment and self-tracking for the heallth & fitness enthusiast there is an existing set of laboratory data acquisition equipment such as http://www.biopac.com/data-acquisition-analysis-system-mp150-system-windows which allow attaching multiple analog physiology sensors (EEG, GSR, EMG, EOG {Eye Tracking}), the limitations of such existinge equipment include its cost (often in the thousands of dollars), its limitation to analog, electrode and Op Amp Sensors (as opposed to the appliance type digital sensors now available to hobbyists and health enthusiast like Neurosky, Zeo and SEEED SPO2 (Pulse Ox Sensor), and its lack of a wireless connection to the cloud or a Internet of Things Service.
I am wondering and opening up for discussion what sort of Open Hardware/Software System Based Laboratory Equipment we could develop for these needs possible with the help of Community Sourced Funding.
Please respond to my brainstorming in the spirit of a "Strawman" meant to encourage your participation rather than an "impossible" directive from "on high"
--Ira Laefsky
From: mario....@gmail.com [mailto:mario....@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mario Baldini
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 8:40 PM
To: lae...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Atto Sistemas - Formulario de contato
Hello Ira,
Here in Brazil we are currently working on a totem (linux based) system to acquire and transmit patient data to the cloud and healthcare providers.
Currently it's not opensource yet, because we didn't have the time to properly document it and since it's under heavily development, we think that it would just push away interested people.
But we are trying to develop a sustainable business model along with opensourcing the project, and looking for partners with common interests.
Where are you from? What specifically are you working on?
Best regards,
Mario Baldini
2012/11/20 <lae...@comcast.net>
nome: Ira Laefsky
mensagem: I am the instigator of an Open Source effort to aggregate Health, Fitness, and Physiology Data on Linux and an Internet of Things Platform
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