Parkinson's is a neurological disease that is mainly expressed in tremors. Collecting and analyzing information about the patient's hand movements can help the doctor figure out what the patient's condition is. The Parkinson Tremor Recorder is a watch designed to collect Parkinson patient's hand movements.
The watch designed in the project samples and save Parkinson’s hand movements, and then pass the data from the watch to the doctor through USB connection.
The watch consists of small measurement unit sensor contains accelerometer and gyroscope connected to a small microcontroller. The microcontroller connected to memory card and UART connection.
The sensor – MPU6050, measures the patient’s hand movement in six axes- three for the accelerometer and three for the gyroscope. The client defines how long the measurements will take before sampling. During the measurement, the data is gathered and saved the SD card.
The microcontroller- ESP8266, is used to pass the information from the SD card to the computer through USB connection, at the end of the measurement process.
There are two states to the watch. The sampling state- few seconds after the user push the start button, the sensor starts collecting the measurements and save them in the SD card. The transmission state- after the doctor connect the watch to USB, the sensor stops sampling and the data from the SD card transmitted from the SD card to the PC.
Expect for the microcontroller, measurement unit sensor, memory card and UART connection, to system also includes DC to DC converter – , battery charger- BQ24072.
