[2020] Real-time embedded hardware & software to read-out incubator’s sensors

Do you want to be part of an innovation project and have a direct and tangible positive impact on people and society?

In collaboration with a startup in the medical field and as a small sub-project, we would like to read-out incubators sensors in real-time and integrate them into a new Linux based hardware and frontend. The new embedded hardware should have enough number crunching and calculation power for real-time basic signal and image processing operations. Our current software must be migrated into the new hardware, which supports encrypted dataflow and communication with the backend.

Assignment

The students will search and advise the best suitable embedded hardware on the market as a successor for our current hardware. The new embedded hardware system should be Linux based and must have more calculation power and memory supporting real-time basic signal- and image processing with faster and more efficient data communication.

You will investigate and implement an API to connect to different brands of incubators to read-out their sensor output. The sensors data must be transferred encrypted and stored into the backend of the system and showed real-time in our frontend. For this purpose, you may migrate and update our current software architecture and code.
Your research also consists of identifying and solving high level issues in the current architecture including problems related to interactions between components that might be costly to change or fix in the future. You will also advise medical approved sensors; e.g. temperature sensor, weight sensor, humidity sensor, ECG sensors, etc. to connect and measure vital signs with our embedded system. Your final deliverable is a fully functional embedded hardware and software architecture with proper documentation at code and system level for future maintenance and improvements.

Contact

prof.dr. Paddy French

Bioelectronics Group

Department of Microelectronics

Last modified: 2020-10-29