Wise Wireless Sensor by Yihong Qi and Alex Qi

Wise Wireless Sensor by Yihong Qi and Alex Qi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Nyiaj in Tsim Kev Tsim Kho Khoom thiab Txuj Ci Competition Category.

NyiajKev Tsim Kho· 2021

Wise Wireless Sensor

by Yihong Qi and Alex Qi

Client: Mercku Inc.

A' Design Award Nyiaj Winner in Kev Tsim Kho Category

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The Design

About Wise Wireless Sensor

Wise yog ib lub cuab yeej ntsuas yam tsis siv xov (wireless sensor) uas ntsuas plawv dhia, sai pa, thiab lwm yam cim ntawm txoj sia yam tsis tas hnav dab tsi. Lub cuab yeej ntsuas nyob ib leeg no muaj qhov ntev 4 cm rau 4 cm nrog qhov dav 2 mm, thiab muaj xya lub antennas raug ntsaws rau hauv ib qho chaw me li lub npib. Kev cuam tshuam sab hauv ntawm lub kaw lus raug txo qis, thiab software cais tus xov ntawm lub cuab yeej ntsuas tawm ntawm suab nrov ib puag ncig. Cov suab me me xws li plawv dhia raug ntsuas los ntawm qhov deb txog li 3 meters. Lub cuab yeej ntsuas raug ntsaws rau thaum tsim khoom hauv tsheb, khoom siv hauv tsev, thiab cov khoom siv hluav taws xob, thiab nws ua haujlwm yam tsis tas kom tus neeg siv ua dab tsi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Nyiaj

Wise Wireless Sensor yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Nyiaj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev tshaj li qub uas muab rau cov qauv tsim qib siab, zoo nkauj thiab ua rau neeg xav tsis thoob. Cov neeg yeej Nyiaj yog cov haujlwm ci ntsa iab heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas qhia txog kev paub, kev txawj ntse thiab kev ntse ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. Wise Wireless Sensor xav tias yuav yog ib qho haujlwm zoo kawg nkaus uas tsim rau qhia, tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab tob. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Nyiaj no yog ib qho khoom tsim uas pom tseeb heev thiab neeg qhuas uas pab tau thiab nthuav dav ciam teb ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis. Wise Wireless Sensor yog ib qho khoom tsim uas neeg coob xav tau, uas ua rau xav, coj kev xav zoo thiab ua rau xav tsis thoob thiab xav paub.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Wireless Intelligence Sensing (WISe) combines unique hardware and computing breakthroughs to accurately measure heartbeat, breath rates, and vital signs without wearables. Innovations include minimizing wireless interference, fitting seven antennas in a coin-sized space. Cutting edge computation isolates sensor signals from environmental noise and measures minuscule rhythms like heartbeats, non-intrusively, from meters away.
Dimensions & Packaging: The sensor can fit in existing products, automobiles, and electronic devices. The size is flexible, and the antenna array can be adapted to fit unique implementations and environments. The standalone sensor measures 4cm x 4cm and has a 2mm width. Leveraging mmWave frequency, particularly 60GHz, this sensor can achieve near-perfect results up to 3m. Beyond that, the sensor can cover multiple rooms for presence detection capabilities.
Tags: Wireless, Sensing, Mercku, WISe, Connectivity, Automotive, Healthcare, Sensor
Production Technology: The three-step design captures data, synthesizes information, and accumulates knowledge. Hardware innovations, including industry-leading antenna systems, accurately capture human data. Then, proprietary software algorithms turn data into information and distinguish human behavior. Lastly, advanced AI and machine learning computation build models to understand human behavior, enabling early disease detection and empowering a human-machine ecosystem.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge is overcoming the system interference to obtain valuable vital data without wearables. Using RADAR, measuring airplanes in the sky is complex, but measuring something as small as a heartbeat, even under clothing, is exponentially more complicated. Internal system noise improves upon Nobel Prize-winning theories to minimize all system noise, to achieve wireless vital measurement. Currently, this solution boasts industry-leading accuracy due to breakthroughs in physics.
Research: The research focused on three main areas. Hardware research and advancements protected by intellectual capital delves into internal system noise reduction and maximized antenna gain, resulting in industry-leading hardware performance. Software algorithms remove environmental noise to obtain precise measurements of the intended subject(s). Lastly, proprietary artificial intelligence enables learnings to decipher information into discernable health and presence insights.
Inspiration: Advances in science and technology empower humanity, health, and longevity; however, today's tools cannot decipher human vitality and behavior. Mercku leverages advanced artificial intelligence and hardware to connect things and environments to people, unlocking a truly connected IoT ecosystem. Innovations into eliminating internal interference, environmental noise, and robust system designs enable devices to measure nearby vitals without wearables, completing a proper machine-human integration.
Project Duration: WISe development started in 2017 in Waterloo, Canada, and the first commercial product became available in September 2020. Currently, WISe integration occurs in the automotive and smart home industries.
Operation Flow: Embedded into existing or new products, WISe unlocks vital sensing capabilities automatically, without user intervention. In a car, WISe can scan for security intrusions, measure driver health and detect children. In the home, WISe can make any product vital-sensitive. The sensor is embedded as a component at the manufacturing level.
Patents: Mercku Inc.
Team Members: Yihong Qi
Alex Qi
Yunlong Luo
Ge Shi
Image Credits: Mercku Inc.