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progress update 3/22
Mar. 22, 2019—We have been working on the Front End Design in BuilderX using ReactNative. You can see our progress below. Challenges have been faced with BuilderX crashing on us and learning to use the program and how React-Native works since we made the switch from Microsoft Visual Studio. We hope to finish this front end code...
Progress update 2/1
Feb. 1, 2019—One of our goals for mid-February was to get an oxygen concentrator to build our prototype mechanical device for. In order to reach this goal we have reached out to the administrator at Respiratory Therapy at Vanderbilt and will be communicating with Vanderbilt’s home suppliers to see if they will let us borrow one. However,...
Progress Report #4
Dec. 8, 2018—During the past week we met with Dr. Lancaster for the final time this semester and discussed where we are currently at with our project design and our plans. We also received a contact from our other sponsor, Mrs. Mason, with whom we hope to be able to meet with at the beginning of the...
Progress Report #2
Nov. 7, 2018—Progress Report #2 This past week our group was able to go to Medical Necessities to look at the type of oxygen concentrator we will be working with. Below is a picture we took of the standard in-home oxygen concentrator we saw. From this experience, we now have a more informed opinion about how...
Current Patents
Oct. 24, 2018—Patent EP3238768A1 is the only one found so far that focuses on the adjustment of the oxygen to prevent hypercapnia. It current does not have the functionality we seek as far as a closed loop for sensing o2 levels and making an adjustment based on that. However it has the basis to build towards that.