Now you can test the lung functioning with a simple call. You need not have a smart phone to use this feature, it’s just a call. This is a health sensing tool which can accurately measure lung function over a single call. People these days are suffering from Asthma, cystic fibrosis or some other chronic lung diseases and they pay lots of amounts to know the function of the lung. Now this will be made easy by just a call and without visiting a doctor.
“We wanted to be able to measure lung function on any type of phone you might encounter around the world – smartphones, landlines, payphones,” said Shwetak Patel, at the University of Washington.
“With SpiroCall, you can call a 1-800 number, blow into the phone and use the telephone network to test your lung function,” Patel said.
Researchers developed SpiroSmart an app that can tell you the functioning of lungs. This is can found just by blowing into your phone. Patients are asked to inhale and exhale as fast as they can to send the results. By this, the sensors in your phone send information to the central server and convert this data into standard measurements of lung function.
The information is sent through internet wich transmits the collected audio using a standard channel. The multiple regression algorithms are combined to provide lung function estimates despite the degraded audio quality.
A 3D printed whistle can be used in conjunction with spiro all that changes the pitch of patients audio as developed by researchers. This provides information to patients to hear what a good and bad sounds like.