The document provides a progress report for an iPhone-based healthcare diagnostic device project. It discusses the circuit design, application development, and next steps. Key points: - A sensor to measure physiological parameters like temperature has been designed. An application to process and visualize data on the iPhone simulator was also completed. - Outstanding issues include connecting the sensor to the iPhone and testing the hardware. - The project timeline was extended by two weeks. Acceptance review is scheduled for January 17. - Next steps are to test the sensor-iPhone connection in a future SDK release and add contact management features to the application.

1. Home Care diagnostic device on
iPhone
Project Report
Prepared by: iPhone_Team@IIITB

2. Introduction
• Objective
– Progress report for iPhone based health care solution.
– Discussion on application design
• Hardware – circuit design and component details
• Software – data processing and visualization application
• Outcome
– The feedback, suggestions and strategic decisions required to allow the
project to move forward to the next phase

3. Agenda
• Project Overview
• Tasks Summary
• Outstanding Risks and Issues
• Project Budget, Schedule, & Scope
• Acceptance Review
• Next Steps

4. Project Overview
• Project description
– Findings on techniques to measure physiological parameter such as
temperature.
– Market study on smart phone based health care solutions.
– Developing health care solution based for handheld device such as iPhone.
– Timeline – Aug 11, 2008 – Jan 15, 2009
• Status update
– Smartphone based health care solution will have positive market growth.
• Health care services to be 20 % of GDP in US by 2015
• Scarcity of nurses in US is estimated in coming years
• “…Patient telemonitoring facilitates the extension of healthcare services to remote and sparse-
populated areas avoiding the need of expensive.”

5. Project Overview
• Status update
– Findings on smartphone based health care solution
• Positive market growth for next decade
• Health care services to be 20 % of GDP in US by 2015
• Scarcity of nurses in US is estimated in coming years
• “…Patient telemonitoring facilitates the extension of healthcare services to remote and sparse-
populated areas avoiding the need of expensive.”
– Application design status
• Circuit design for temperature sensor complete
• UI screens and a working demo data processing application on iPhone simulator is complete.
• Barring few issues or findings

6. Project Overview
• Project team introduction
– A four member team
• Sub teams
» sensor design (Ashish, Indrani)
» software design (Ashish, M.R. Varun, Manish)

7. Tasks summary and work division
Member Task description
Ashish Kumar
(2007021)
(1) Designing the measurement device
<<done>>
(2) Introductory tutorial on iPhone
SDK to other project teams <<done>>
(3) UI design for application <<done>>
(4) Data transfer using SMS from one
phone to another <<open issue>>
(5) Testing and application
maintenance <<done>>
(6) Documentation – Introduction,
Smartphone market, related products
and research statements.

8. Tasks summary and work division
Member Task description
Indrani Maity
(2007045)
(1) Designing the measurement
device <<done>>
(2) Assembly code to program and
access the sensor hardwire
<<done>>
(3) Data transfer from sensor to PC
<<open issue>>
(4) Testing of sensor, and hardware
before the final release of the project
work <<open issue>>
(5) Documentation – Sensor design
details, techniques to measure
physiological parameters.

9. Tasks summary and work division
Member Task description
Varun M.R
(2007064)
(1) Mac and iPhone SDK installation
<<done>>
(2) iPhone SDK self learning <<done>>
(3) UI design for application <<done>>
(4) Data transfer using SMS from one
phone to another <<open issue>>
(5) Testing and application
maintenance <<done>>
(6) Documentation – Apple iPhone
design details

10. Tasks summary and work division
Member Task description
Manish Thaper
(2007068)
(1) iPhone SDK self learning <<done>>
(2) Introductory tutorial on iPhone
SDK to other project teams <<done>>
(3) UI design for application <<done>>
(4) Data transfer using SMS from one
phone to another <<open issue>>
(5) Testing and application
maintenance <<done>>
(6) Documentation – Introduction,
Apple iPhone design details

11. Project Budget, Schedule, & Scope
Scope Mgmt.
Schedule
Budget
Cost
Project
Status
• Actual vs. Baseline Variance - Not evaluated yet
• Cost overrun explanations – Not evaluated yet
Connectivity between
iPhone and sensor may be
done via a PC/Mac.
• Project delivery date postponed by
two weeks.
•Approved by Prof. Roland Haas.

12. Acceptance Review
• Customer
– Acceptance status – Not evaluated
– Customer concerns - Not evaluated
– Customer changes - Not evaluated
• Steering Committee
– Acceptance status – To be updated after review on January 17, 2009
– Strategy concerns (e.g., scope, budget, and schedule) – To be
updated after January 17, 2009.
• Project Team
– Acceptance status – Light green (Prototype ready for review)
– Resource issues – In following slides

13. Next Steps
• Open issues
– Connectivity between iPhone device and sensor – SDK does not
provides API’s to transfer data using USB or Bluetooth.
– Hardware resources were not available. PCB design could not be built
and tested.
• Next phase
– Using iPhone on the phone database SQLite.
– AddressBook framework for CRUD, doctor and patient contacts.
– Data transfer between sensor and iPhone to be tested in subsequent
SDK release.

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