1.1 Customers
Our main customer will be hospital staff looking to free up beds and send patients home to be monitored remotely
An additional customer will be an inpatient recovering patient looking to leave the hospital and return to the comfort of their home
An additional customer will be an outpatient recovering patient looking to be able to send information back to their healthcare provider easily
An additional customer will be people who have not undergone recent surgery and want to monitor their vitals for other reasons
1.2 Needs
The device must be small and comfortable
The device must have alerting + monitoring capabilitiesÂ
The device must track essential post-op vitals: heart rate, temperature, pulse oximetry
The device must be simple to set up and have no maintenance
The device must be optimized to use little power
The device must have safe storage and transfer of the user's sensitive health information
1.3 Requirements
The device shall upload all data to a cloud, and the healthcare provider shall be able to access and alert the hospital of any concerning spikes/dives in their vitals
The device shall be made with a small form factor and non-invasive sensors to maximize comfort
The device shall be completely self-operating, the user shall only have to wear it and everything shall be monitored and uploaded automatically
The device shall collect data most accurately and to the best of its ability using top-of-the-line sensors in each category in order to prevent false readings or anomalies in collected data.
The device shall interact with a cloud service securely to transmit its collected data to its destination without possibility of being intercepted and decrypted.
The device shall be engineered so the user cannot easily break it or cause it to malfunction. The device shall be self operating and require little user intervention to keep it running.
The device shall practically use energy to allow for the best battery life possible in the design to reduce the amount of time spent charging and not monitoring the users vitals.
1.4 Needs-Requirements Mapping