Speck Design Helps Corventis Predict Heart Failure
Speck Design Delivers the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design for the Corventis PiiX Monitor
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Speck is proud to partner with Corventis who is changing how patient, doctors, and devices interact to predict heart failure and to save lives.
The Corventis PiiX product is a wireless, water-resistant sensor that sticks to a patient's chest and monitors heart rate, respiratory rate, bodily fluids, and overall activity. It transmits the data to a central server for analysis and review by doctor and patient.
Speck has delivered an increasing amount of well designed, high-functioning remote monitoring devices this year. For Corventis specifically, they have done two revisions of the PiiX Monitor.
Speck Design worked with Corventis to determine the right size and shape of the device and to develop the appropriate user interaction. “From the user’s standpoint, the important focus is how people interact with the device. Data gathered is useful, but when you are unable to use the device intuitively the purpose is degraded.” Tark Abed, Creative Director.
Speck’s mechanical engineers designed the mechanical interface between the assemblies as well as the housing.
“An issue we had to consider is the fact that humans are wearing these things. That means that the devices ‘live’ in a far less of a controlled environment than in the hospital. Companies want the devices to feel more ‘consumery’. And from our point of view, the more like a consumer device that it is forced to look like, the harder it is to design in the performance effectively.” Shigeru Tanaka, Engineering Manager for the Medical Systems Group. “There are also concerns with this kind of monitoring. Things fail, simple as that. If there is a crash you can lose data, or worse, patient confidence. The second concern is the trend for the doctor to be distanced from the patient; in their effort to scale we could lose some of the intuition and human contact. We overcame these with an extremely robust, reliable design.”
About Speck Design
Speck Design is Silicon Valley’s leading product design firm. We specialize in industrial and mechanical design services. Speck Design develops products with highly complex requirements that need to be both functional and durable. With 13 years of experience designing over 1000 products across demanding industries including medical devices, networking, clean tech, industrial products and consumer products, our relentlessly pragmatic approach ensures that we deliver elegant solutions for the most complex problems. Our products are built to be functional and practical and to meet the business needs of our clients—who turn to us repeatedly with their toughest product challenges. Notable clients include Accuray, Apple, Audi, Cisco, Clorox, Dell, Ericsson, Hasbro, Juniper, Intuitive Surgical, Redback, Tesla Motors, and VW.
