Q&A: Constructing an autonomous module to observe astronauts’ well being
Phyxable, a digital care platform that connects sufferers with physiotherapists and provides customers instruments to be proactive with their well being, was chosen by the Canadian House Company as certainly one of 5 firms to contribute to its 2023 Well being Past Initiative, which helps sustainable and modern options that deal with well being challenges confronted by astronauts.
Dr. Jim Feng, CEO of Phyxable, sat down with MobiHealthNews to debate the Linked Care Medical Module the physiotherapy firm and its companions are engaged on with the Company to investigate astronauts’ well being throughout house flight.
MobiHealthNews: How is Phyxable working with the Canadian House Company?
Dr. Jim Feng: CSA and NASA, and everyone who’s at present on this new house flight journey to Mars, we’re searching for higher methods in creating human well being. And if you happen to take a look at house well being, particularly deep house well being, the place there’s lengthy flights that might be six months or extra in length, and in a microgravity state of affairs, the way you maintain these sufferers and maintain ourselves actually is far completely different than what we do on Earth.
We do not have the assets, primary. That is the important thing element there. After which you may solely have, in all probability, generalists who know a bit of about quite a lot of issues, however not loads about little issues.
So one element of the CSA, and that is public data, is that the RFP [request for proposal] that they put out was particularly for 2 parts. One is the {hardware} facet. So how do you really construct little clinics and hospitals and that may be autonomous in nature, in addition to self-sustained? So we constructed this actually cool medical pod, and we’ll be capable to showcase it within the upcoming months.
It will be on the Canadian House Company for NATO and NASA for individuals to return by way of and consider, so it is actually thrilling occasions. So we have now this pod that is absolutely autonomous. There’s like 30 photo voltaic panels, a rain catch system, UV sterilization, such as you title it, we received it. We even have robotics in there.
The {hardware} is constructed by three companions. So it is Phyxable, Micron Digital and WizCraft Design. So we have now all of the talent units to construct the parts, the {hardware} parts of it. And yeah, the pod is definitely known as Superior Medical Pods.
After which a key element of that is that it needs to be interoperable. You’ve got to have the ability to plug and play completely different units in there to have the ability to get completely different options. As a result of we won’t construct all of it, on the finish of the day, we wish to have the ability to combine. In order that’s key. So there’s going to be quite a lot of gamers which can be going to be engaged on the Phyxable platform.
After which, on the opposite facet, is the software program. We created a extremely cool AI-based device that we’ll launch to the world, and I believe it solves an enormous drawback for interoperability. It is known as Morpheus. There’s extra to return. That is Phyxable and Micron Digital collectively. We’re engaged on the undertaking collectively, led by Rohit Seth.
MHN: How is the module going to attach suppliers right here on Earth to astronauts in house successfully, particularly since there generally is a lag in communication time relying on their location?
Feng: There’s undoubtedly a delay. So I believe the distinction of what we’re constructing, together with a mesh community, really, that Micron Digital has, that we’re incorporating into the system, permits for various methods of connectivity.
It is absolutely autonomous in its personal proper. It could actually work by itself, but when you should department out, it has a option to synchronize with the cloud on Earth, in addition to again. And with reference to telemedicine, the dialog modifications in the way you cope with instances. The workflow modifications. When you’ve got a change in workflow, it’s important to change how the knowledge is relayed from, you realize, texts/voice, photographs, closed captioning and issues in between.
And what we’re projecting is we’ll have a demo up and prepared by our showcase within the second week of July. In order that’ll be after we’ll really absolutely be out to the world.
A number of stuff needs to be autonomous on the ships, on the house station, on the gateway, on the lunar bases, and hopefully, finally on the Mars bases. After which that is the place actually good AI can are available in to make some prompt implementation duties and methods to do it for the generalists which can be there as effectively.
So these are issues that we’re constructing for the system as effectively. So we’re actually excited for that, as a result of I believe in the end it actually expedites how we work right here on Earth.
