Our vision was to create a low-cost, portable product that would unobtrusively measure and record the tremor of people with Parkinson’s Disease and Essential Tremor. This product would also be able to send the data about the tremor to the patient and doctor.

This product would be useful because, doctors currently have no way to monitor their patients tremors throughout the day, which means the only way that they can get information about their tremor, is by asking the patient or the patient’s family members. This is not a reliable means of acquiring data about the patient’s condition.

It is helpful for doctors to know how their patient’s tremor is changing throughout the day for a number of reasons; 1) it helps doctors understand exactly how the medication that they prescribed to their patient is working. 2) It also is helpful for the makers of the medications because it tells them important information about the performance of their drug. 3) It also gives doctors long term data about their patient’s tremor so they can see if it is improving or deteriorating .

This product has ring with an accelerometer attached to it, which the patient wears all day. The accelerometer measures the tremor throughout the day and send the data to an Arduino which the patient is wearing on their wrist. The Arduino then either stores the data, or sends the data to a computer or smartphone, where it is displayed and recorded.