Product Description Summary and Evaluation Draft 3
According to Sin (2017), the compact Smart StethoScope is a device that helps to monitor the heart, which was invented by three students from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP). This small device is wearable and allows users with cardiovascular diseases to monitor their hearts for abnormal sounds without any medical understanding. This could save the lives of patients whose heart conditions might not have been detected during medical appointments. It can collect data of the sounds and electrical activities in the heart. The data is then uploaded into a machine learning model on a cloud server that will process it and identify abnormal heart sounds. The author also reports that users are only required to wear it for around five minutes per day to record their heart conditions and the saved data will be secured. This device is affordable as it only takes thirty dollars to produce it. Through this device, doctors are able to monitor their patients’ health more easily. Although the...