The goal of the project "Computerized Auxiliary Equipment for Parkinson patients" is to create system for aiding Parkinson patients. The system is A portable device that is capable of detecting Parkinson tremors, alerting the user about them and keeping a detailed log in an internal memory. The device is run by A real-time software and communicates with a PC in multiple ways. The PC software can read the stored log and draw graphs which recreate the tremors.
The system detects appearance of Parkinson’s tremor in the patient’s organ (wrist, leg, head, etc’) by FFT analysis of 3-axis accelerometer. The unique set of parameters characterizing the tremor is stored in non-volatile memory of the system and appropriate alert to the patient is produced. Stored data can be downloaded to the PC for further processing, tracking and archiving (by physician).
Proof of concept for using accelerometer in conjunction with FFT algorithm for Parkinson’s tremor detection was successful. Two types of tiny, portable and autonomous systems with PC communication abilities were built. Also, a unique PC application was developed. These enable patient and physician novel abilities on monitoring of disease’s progress, while archiving all downloaded data in database structure.