Environment and use monitoring system for advanced life support devices
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorGeorge Paul Gumbrell
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Abstract
A data collection device (100) is described which monitors the environmental conditions and the operations of a medical device (10). The data collection device may be arranged to communicate wirelessly via a cloud computing environment with a central computer (210). The central computer compares the reported use data with a preventive maintenance model to predict when or how the medical device will fail. In addition, the central computer may integrate reports from many data collection devices operating in various environments for the purpose of analyzing and improving the predictive maintenance model.
Claims17
A data collection device for monitoring use history of a medical device, the medical device including a self-test circuit for sensing a fault in the medical device, the data collection device comprising:
- an environmental sensor that collects environmental data from a use environment of the medical device;
- a memory that records operating data of the medical device and the environmental data from the environmental sensor;
- a wireless transceiver that transmits the environmental data and the operating data to a remote memory;
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- a controller in communication with the medical device, the environmental sensor, the memory, and the transceiver, wherein the controller causes the transceiver to transmit the environmental data and the operating data to the remote memory, and further receives an instruction, through the wireless transceiver, for modifying a protocol for maintaining the medical device to more accurately predict and/or to avoid a fault in the medical device, as sensed by the self-test circuit,
- wherein the data collection device is attached to the medical device, and is co-located with the medical device in the use environment.
A system for monitoring a use history of a medical device, the medical device having a self-test circuit for sensing a fault in the medical device, the system comprising:
- a data collection device, attached to the medical device having the self-test circuit, co-located with the medical device in a use environment, the data collection device comprising:
- an environmental sensor that collects environmental data from the use environment of the medical device,
- a memory recording operating data of the medical device and recording the environmental data from the environmental sensor,
- a wireless transceiver that transmits the environmental data and the operating data to a second memory, and
- a controller in communication with the medical device, the environmental sensor, the memory, and the transceiver, the controller causing the transceiver to transmit the environmental data and the operating data prior to a sensed fault in the medical device;
- the second memory remote from the data collection device and in communication with the transceiver to receive and store the transmitted environmental data and the operating data;
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- a central computer in communication with the second memory, the central computer comparing the environmental data and the operating data against a predictive maintenance model, and predicting a time to failure of the medical device based on the comparison.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.