Low-Cost Remote Weight Watching System

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In this project we demonstrate a low-cost Remote Weight Monitoring system, designed and developed by the Health Care Technologies Laboratory at Sonoma State University. The primary purpose of this system is to remotely monitor weight changes in diabetic patients. The system is intuitive and easy for patients to operate. In this system the scale readings are sent automatically by the Internet to a central data repository. Thus, nurses and caregivers can easily monitor any abnormal changes in their patients in real-time. The system allows users to set their own alert criteria for providing immediate attention.  For more information Read the Presentation Slides. This project was presented to the SSU Faculty Expo of Scholarship and Sponsored Research. 


 Status: Complete & Demo is available
Sponsered: HCTL

Configureable Remote Laboratory

Effectiveness of distance education systems deals with a number of factors which affect their success or failure. These include the influence of distance learning theory upon instructional design and delivery. In our project our goal is to design and implement an open-form platform in which each educator can design specific learning modules and simply add them to the knowledge-based platform. Each topic includes, theory, simulation, practice with the remote instrumentation, practice test, and quiz questions. Our main focus in this project is to utilize LabVIEW platform. A number of examples are already provided by NI site. Our proposed platforms has a series of unique features:

• Providing theory of operation;
• Allowing the user to perform simulation;
• Building the simulated test setup (automatically or manually- upon request)
• Comparing the simulated results and practical results;
• Answering practice test questions;
• Interacting users with an attendee for guidance and answering questions.

Here are a few examples of some preliminary ideas: Developing a Remote Laboratory and Webcam-based Remote Control.
This project requires developing a series of sub-systems (project proposals):
- Develop a configurable test setup using available measurement tools
- Develop a database to keep track of student activities
- Integrating audio, video, and text
- Allow remote users to use the switches and routers in the network laboratory remotely
- Design a simple approach to provide SMS-based distance learning for communities in which many users have access to cell phone.