Parkinson’s disease can be difficult to monitor by clinicians. Depending on the type of Parkinson’s a patient has, the drug dosage and treatment can vary. Therefore it can be difficult for a clinician to understand the way medication is reacting with a patients body when they return home.
Global Kinetics created a watch to monitor patients movement, revealing reliable data to help adjust medication. However in order to retrieve the data from the watch, patients had to send the device via post. This proved difficult, especially for patients in rural areas.
Global Kinetics approached our engineers here at Procept to help them create an IoT integrated aspect. A “smart dock” where patients could charge their watch and send the data inside the watch to their doctor via the cloud.
Our challenge was to replace the existing cable, with a smart dock that not only extracts data and posts it to the cloud but also serves as a charging dock.
The dock needed to be compliant to medical device standards, this in turn had an impact on the docks design, it also needed to ensure it could connect and send data from any distance (ensuring rural patients could utilise the dock in the same way).
It was also important for the device to be designed for home clinical settings.
Engineering Services:
We created a multi-functioning smart dock which enabled patients to charge their watch as well as send data to their clinicians. The device integrated both 3G and 4G data, handling aspects of regulatory compliance to power consumption and regional variation
Manufacturing Services:
Together we worked with a contract manufacturer and industrial designers D+I to create a device that was suitable for clinical and home use.
Manufacturing services included, smooth manufacture transfer, manufacturing validation, identification and mitigation of any risks and potential point of failure with manufacturing process as well as ongoing manufacturing support for volume manufacture.
“This new device would be revolutionary for the care of Parkinson’s patients.”
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Or call to chat with our team: 03 9079 0480
Tell us about your product idea or project needs.
We will be in contact to let you know how we can help bring your vision to life.
Or call to chat with our team:
(+61 3) 9079 0480