"Smart low cost portable diagnostic center for Rural India" wins Premier Farnell’s competition

The project idea named "Smart low cost Portable diagnostic center for Rural India" by Saleem Ulla Shariff, India has won the electronic component distributor Premier Farnell’s "Change the World" global design competition. Project details: In remote villages in rural India there is a lack of medical facilities This project will use the Internet of Things (IoT) to build a low-cost portable diagnostic centre that could be deployed in every village, allowing better diagnosis of conditions and improving the healthcare available. Sensors interfaced to a Raspberry Pi will be used to help with the diagnosis of patients. Signals from sensors such as ECG and heat beat sensors will be displayed and analysed using digital oscilloscope software. This information will assist doctors and medical staff to conduct basic tests on patients in rural areas, identifying who should be sent for a second opinion to a hospital in a nearby town or city. An open source image processing tool will also be in use process image data, enabling the diagnosis of a range of diseases. "Change the World" competition was launched by Premier Farnell which owns the online semiconductor and electronic component shopping portal element14.com in 2016. The participants are given $1000 of products from element14. The ten winning projects also included entries from all over the world. The other interestin...