I-Corps: Wearable lighting assist tool for real-time tracking and monitoring of lighting conditions and delivery of health information

I-Corps：可穿戴照明辅助工具，用于实时跟踪和监控照明条件并传递健康信息

• 批准号: 2147618
• 负责人: Mona Azarbayjani
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-12-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147618&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Wearable; lighting; assist; tool

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of a personal circadian monitoring device for tailoring indoor lighting conditions according to individual needs. The proposed technology may provide a healthier environment by offering real-time tracking and monitoring of an individual's lighting conditions and delivering health information to increase user engagement. Wearable technology has the potential of global cost saving about $200 billion for the healthcare sector alone in the next 25 years. Considering the cultural and technological shift in wearable technology, the proposed technology may enhance individual health and wellbeing in the built environment. In addition, the proposed technology may provide a recording of the user's lighting exposures and activity-rest patterns as well as visualizing the degree of circadian entrainment and disruption to enhance awareness of living conditions and health. This proposed connected support technology may ultimately result in improving quality of life and health, and reducing healthcare costs.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a connected support technology by applying Deep Learning to circadian parameters obtained from personal circadian monitoring for tailoring indoor lighting conditions according to individual needs and desires. In contrast to existing technologies that have a narrow focus on evaluating the biological effects of light on human health with limited intelligence capabilities, the proposed technology is a holistic solution to enable reliable and real-time assessment of stimulus affecting the human circadian system. By utilizing a low-cost and portable spectrometer and a mHealth application, the technology is designed to monitor several health indicators such as personal light exposure, body temperature, motor activity, and body position, simultaneously. The proposed device is equipped with wireless communication that allows it to connect with a cloud-based web service for storing the collected data in real-time. The data are processed locally on the cloud-based web server by assessing the non-visual effects of light on circadian regulation and long-term health to be visualized on a mHealth app. Providing continuous information by long-term measurement of the (micro)environment around the individuals may mitigate user discomfort and energy consumption, and also may bring health and wellbeing to occupants in existing buildings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发一种个人昼夜节律监测设备，用于根据个人需求定制室内照明条件。 所提出的技术可以通过提供对个人的照明条件的实时跟踪和监视并且递送健康信息以增加用户参与来提供更健康的环境。可穿戴技术有潜力在未来25年内为全球医疗保健行业节省约2000亿美元的成本。考虑到可穿戴技术的文化和技术转变，所提出的技术可以提高建筑环境中的个人健康和福祉。 此外，所提出的技术可以提供用户的照明暴露和活动-休息模式的记录以及使昼夜节律夹带和中断的程度可视化，以增强对生活条件和健康的意识。 I-Corps的项目是基于开发一种连接支持技术，通过将深度学习应用于从个人昼夜节律监测中获得的昼夜节律参数，根据个人需求和愿望定制室内照明条件。与现有技术相比，现有技术仅专注于评估光对人类健康的生物学影响，智能能力有限，所提出的技术是一种整体解决方案，可以对影响人类昼夜节律系统的刺激进行可靠和实时的评估。通过利用低成本便携式光谱仪和mHealth应用程序，该技术旨在同时监测多个健康指标，如个人光照、体温、运动活动和体位。所提出的设备配备了无线通信，使其能够与基于云的Web服务连接，以实时存储收集的数据。通过评估光对昼夜节律调节和长期健康的非视觉影响，在基于云的网络服务器上本地处理数据，以在mHealth应用程序上可视化。通过对个人周围的（微）环境的长期测量提供连续信息可以减轻用户的不适和能量消耗，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。