List of questions

What could be an IoT solution to facilitate an objective assessment of heart sounds in patients using, for example, sensor and/or sound technology and/or mobile phones or some other device like an electronic stethoscope?

Abnormal heart sounds, i.e heart murmurs, are common in people and animals. For example, approximately 20-30% of all infants and young dogs and cats have a heart murmur that are detected by auscultation through a stethoscope. Many of these murmurs are not indicative of heart disease, but others are.
• Correct identification of heart sounds/murmurs would be of particular interest for clinicians when performing risk assessment or when deciding if special care and more extensive examinations are required.
• However, interpretation of heart sounds based on traditional auscultation technique is extremely subjective: The interpretation of auscultatory findings has been shown highly dependent on experience and a considerable inter-observer variation in the ability to detect and interpret hearts sounds and murmurs exists.
• In addition, some information in the cardiac sound signal is inaccessible by standard auscultation due to physical limitations in the human auditory system.

Accordingly, improvement in sound analysis tools is desirable. A future introduction of an innovative “intelligent” stethoscope/device with decision support abilities could hopefully offer a simple and cost-effective method for detecting abnormal heart sounds. The interpretation of heart sounds could thereby be standardized regardless of individual physicians or veterinarians own subjective interpretation.

In this regard, Cenvigo has taken an interest in developing an easy device/solution with good recording and sensor/sound capabilities and remote connectivity capabilities, in order for it to have mass applications in the future. This device would contribute to the research related to objective characterization of heart sounds in patients affected by various heart disease/heart abnormalities.

How can IoT help NCC to design and build more sustainable buildings?

The Construction industry is developing, but maybe not in the pace that needed, especially within sustainability.

What break-throughs in material and device technologies are necessary for 24/7 medical sensing, pre-processing, and reporting with wearable, wireless devices?

To save costs and increase well-being, there is a desire to release patients earlier from hospitalization. At the same time, doctors need to continue to monitor them remotely and timely.

How can flexible, disposable, and low-power body-sensing devices be realised?

There are advanced technologies for patient monitoring but they are expensive and require maintenance and cleaning for reuse. Cheap, disposable sensors provide medical monitoring for a large number of patients.

What energy-efficient ways are there to perform non-invasive sensing of physiological parameters?

Sensing of physiological parameters by time- or frequency-domain spectroscopy is well known but requires power-hungry sources and/or detectors. Therefore, it is difficult to do 24/7 patient monitoring with battery-operated devices.

Flexible displays have the potential to be placed in many places. What role will flexible display play in IoT field?

Of the following, what do you think will be the most important driving factor for IoT? 1

Examples include : 1)Low power devices, 2) Battery life, 3) Process scaling, 4) Techniques to reduce production costs, 5) Development of new applications