Re:MakAir: Covid-19 ventilator with a Raspberry Pi
by baptistejamin on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:52AM
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It's why there is a second board to handle critical tasks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25671318
Re:MakAir: Covid-19 ventilator with a Raspberry Pi
by mbreese on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:36PM
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If I could ask -- I saw a LoRA circuit mentioned in the schematics... what is that used for?
Re:MakAir: Covid-19 ventilator with a Raspberry Pi
by pp-ir on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:07PM
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Good question!
The plan was to use it for the central alarm room in temporary hospitals where no network exists.
We planned to develop a small gateway to gather all the devices alarms, linked to bed number. It was not developed, but hardware has the feature.
The LoRa fairness will allow very few data to come up, but high level alarms vital could be transmitted several times in a second if needed.
We know we cannot use it to transfer waveforms of course.
If this is the case, then this would make the reliability much better and there is a chance it could be useful to many places. If the SD card on the Pi dies (which, if they are logging the data to SD and not RAM, is a likely event), then they can have spare SDs available as part of the standard operating procedure. It's not ideal, but so long as the main microcontroller is functioning, the display could be considered non-critical. Although, ICU staff might disagree...