Ting-E-Ling: A Health Monitoring Device

Abstract

With the world becoming focused on health on a personal level, individuals have the possibility to track their basic medical data, such as pulse, blood pressure, tem-perature, activity and hormone levels. The global trends also show general interest in personal health. This project aims to help people with tracking their individual health, by measuring and sending related data to the most common hand-held de-vices: smartphones. Not only this, but there are other implications of the collected data than health: the project will try to match people up (if allowed) with other people who share similar body traits and activity to them, helping them to find friends, partners or even love interests on Social Media sites like Tinder. Delektre Ltd is developing a ring (named Ting-E-Ling), which is capable of meas-uring the previously mentioned health data (pulse, blood pressure and body tem-perature to begin with). It can transfer this data to other devices via a Bluetooth connection. The project needs to make a software level interface on those devices (Android smartphones – later IOS planned), to process, log and display the data. Other parts include displaying the data on Social Media. The ring will use Low-Energy Bluetooth for the communication, which must be taken into account dur-ing the development. The user interface of the application must be intuitive and easy to use. The ring is currently in development phase. Initial testing of the hardware has be-gun, and a prototype device capable of mimicking the data stream from the ring has been produced and provided by the company. The development of an An-droid application which is capable of the previously listed features has been initiated.