{"id":7906,"date":"2018-03-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ulprospector.com\/knowledge\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2022-06-01T08:16:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:16:23","slug":"pe-smartphone-health-monitor-vital-moto-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ulprospector.ul.com\/7906\/pe-smartphone-health-monitor-vital-moto-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital Health Insights: Vital Moto Mod"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowing and understanding your body\u2019s vital signs just might save your life someday, especially if you are one of the 1 billion or so people on the planet who suffer from high blood pressure, or hypertension. But getting an accurate reading on this key medical indicator is not easy. It usually takes four dedicated devices to capture the core vital signs of temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood oxygen level (or SpO2<\/sub>, monitored via pulse oximetry). Enter the smartphone health monitor.<\/p>\n

A Los Angeles-based company focused on connected health is aiming to make health monitoring easier. Vital USA Inc., in partnership with Lenovo and Motorola, introduced a smartphone-based product at January\u2019s CES 2018 show in Las Vegas that can accurately monitor and track those four vital signs, plus respiratory rate, in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

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Smartphone health monitor<\/h2>\n

Known as the Vital Moto Mod<\/strong>, the modular device snaps on to Motorola\u2019s very thin Moto Z family of Android smartphones, and leverages Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity. This turns the phone into what Vital calls the \u201cfirst connected, integrated, multi-vital-sign monitoring platform that you can operate through a simple app on your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The product was born in part as a result of another product \u2014 a digital, contactless thermometer \u2014 developed by ARC Devices USA Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla. ARC Devices\u2019 founder, Irwin Gross, also founded and is executive chairman of Vital. ARC\u2019s InstaTempMD\u00e2<\/sup> digital thermometer allows practitioners to take clinically accurate core body temperature in 2.5 seconds.<\/p>\n

After seeing how the thermometer helped doctors to treat patients in remote parts of Liberia, the Vital team imagined developing a single finger cuff that could capture those key vital signs, attach to a smartphone, connect to the Internet via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, and transmit vital signs to a mobile app.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe healthcare market is full of technology from the 1980s and we\u2019ve been talking about changing it since then,\u201d Gross is quoted as saying. \u201cNow it\u2019s actually happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vital began working to turn its vision into a tangible product. By May 2017, the team had specifications and a rough prototype whose tubes, wires and cables functioned, but it was far from a finished product. Gross met Phoenix-based contract manufacturer Avnet Inc., which brought design, mechanical, electrical and IoT expertise to the project. The ambitious goal was to have a market-ready product ready to show investors at the Mobile World Congress in San Francisco in just three months.<\/p>\n

In that time, the partners overcame a number of challenges, including:<\/p>\n