Image via WikipediaA team of electrical and computer engineering students at Calvin College is designing a digital electronic stethoscope running uClinux as its operating system.It does the following -
* Stream real-time audio from a wireless chestpiece
* Record high-quality audio data from a patient's body
* Store this audio data in a convenient format
* Use a USB interface to transfer the audio files to a computer
* Reduce the amount of ambient noise that a doctor hears
* Be simple, accurate, and easy to use!
Visit their website for more information.
I've liked this team name - "Rhythm Reloaded" also.
These kind of devices are required for the RPM - Remote Patient Monitoring solutions.
The team has prepared a nice presentation. It is good to see this presentation. Nice comparison about the list of OS considered.
uCLinux was selected by them from list list - uCLinux, No OS, FreeRTOS, eCos, GNU/Linux, Nucleus RTOS, uC/OS
I've seen the following listed as part of the challenges!!
Open source software != functional
I think, this is really true when we try to integrate open source software. We may not get the fully functional and stable version of softwares. *Some times* i feel choosing open source softwares may be overhead for a commercial solution.
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