Bengalura-based ProtoCentral Electronics has introduced the successor to its HealthyPi 5 biosignal acquisition platform — very sensibly named the HealthyPi 6, providing boosted efficiency over its predecessor.
“HealthyPi 6 takes the confirmed basis and rules behind HealthyPi 5 and delivers an enormous efficiency leap,” says ProtoCentral’s Ashwin Whitchurch of the brand new board. “It options dramatically quicker sign acquisition, considerably enhanced processing energy, and expanded storage capabilities, setting a brand new commonplace for open-source biosignal monitoring platforms. Constructed for healthcare professionals, researchers, and biomedical engineers who worth knowledge possession and system flexibility, HealthyPi 6 scales from single affected person monitoring to advanced multi-signal analysis research.”
The brand new HealthyPi 6 provides boosted efficiency over its predecessor, however drops various options alongside the best way. (📷: ProtoCentral Electronics)
Like its predecessor, the HealthyPi 6 targets biosignal monitoring. It features a five-lead heart-monitoring electrocardiogram (ECG) with 4 channels going right into a Texas Devices ADS1294R 24-bit analog to digital converter supporting as much as 32 kilo-samples per second (ksPS), finger-based photoplethysmogram (PPG) pulse monitoring probes feeding right into a TI AFE4400 analog front-end, respiration monitoring through thoracic impedance, and temperature monitoring through a “precision digital pores and skin temperature sensor.”
This time round, although, the corporate has moved away from the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller that powered the HealthyPi 5; as a substitute, the Wholesome Pi 6 makes use of an STMicroelectronics STM32H757 with an Arm Cortex-M7 core operating at as much as 480MHz and a Cortex-M4 core operating at as much as 240MHz, linked to 32MB of SDRAM and as much as 128MB of flash expandable through microSD Card. It additionally drops just a few options: there is not any Wi-Fi connectivity, the 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) connector is gone as is assist for an non-obligatory on-board show, and there is not any battery administration system for moveable use.
ProtoCentral is planning to launch a crowdfunding marketing campaign for the HealthyPi 6 on Crowd Provide within the close to future, with events invited to enroll to be notified when it goes reside; the corporate has confirmed it’ll publish full supply code, schematics, board layouts, and different design information on the similar time.
