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Wise Sensor Nirkabel by Yihong Qi and Alex Qi

Wise Sensor Nirkabel by Yihong Qi and Alex Qi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Perak in Rekayasa Competition Category.


PerakRekayasa· 2021

Wise Sensor Nirkabel

by Yihong Qi and Alex Qi

Client: Mercku Inc.

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Rekayasa Category

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The Design

About Wise Sensor Nirkabel

Wise adolah sensor nirkabel nan mangukua danyuik jantuang, laju napeh, sarato tando-tando vital lainnyo tanpa parangkek nan dipakai di badan. Sensor nan badiri surang ko baukua 4 cm kali 4 cm jo laba 2 mm, sarato tujuah antena tapasang dalam ruang saukua uang koin. Ganguan sistem internal dikurangi, sarato parangkek lunak mamisahkan isyaraik sensor dari deru lingkuangan. Irama ketek saroman danyuik jantuang diukua dari jarak sampai 3 meter jauahnyo. Sensor ko ditanam salamo proseh pambuatan di kandaraan, produk rumah tanggo, sarato parangkek elektronik, sarato inyo bakarajo tanpa paralu tindakan dari pangguno.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Wise Sensor Nirkabel adolah pamenang A' Design Award Perak, sabuah pangakuan nan luar biaso bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan tingkaik tatinggi, elok jo mangesankan. Pamenang Perak adolah karya nan sangaik cemerlang jo sangaik kreatif nan mamparlihatkan kapakaran, bakaik jo katajaman pikiran parancangnyo. Wise Sensor Nirkabel dipaokan manjadi karya nan mangaguikan, contoh tauladan, sangaik profesional jo inovatif sacaro dalam. Rancangan nan manang Perak iko adolah panemuan nan nampak jo dikagumi nan mambari sumbangan untuak maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Wise Sensor Nirkabel adolah ciptaan nan dicamburui banyak urang, nan mambangkikkan karinduan, mambaok parasaan positif jo malahiakan karagumon jo kakaguman.

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.

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