Smart Inhaler

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• Description
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Description

The convergence of an aging population and breakthrough technological advances has created endless opportunities for automated medical devices.

These devices help ensure the future health of millions of people by providing advances in diabetes care, cardiac care, therapy adherence and general health and wellness applications. Regardless of the end use, developers of healthcare/medicals devices face similar challenges—the need to balance processing requirements with power consumption, support to ensure a fast time-to-market, the need for secure wireless connections and product longevity are all key to healthcare designers.

Standard Inhalers are not efficient enough, so a new generation of smart inhalers need to be developed.

NXP is a leading high-volume sensor provider with an extensive selection of accelerometers, magnetometers, pressure sensors and touch sensors for medical applications. We combine premium materials, advanced micromachining techniques, thin-film metallization and bipolar semiconductor processing to provide accurate, highly reliable products at competitive prices for optimum patient care and affordability.

Features

• Communication with the smart mobile device via BLE
• The smart inhaler is provided with sensors that monitor the therapy adherence
• The cloud server communicate to the mobile phone, for example to provide reminders if the medicine is not taken
• The smart inhaler needs to authenticate that the gas cartridge is authentic
• The app in the smart mobile needs to authenticate that the smart inhaler is authentic
• Wireless connectivity
• Security integration
• Brand protection for the gas cartridge

Block Diagram

Products

Category Name 1:	Bluetooth
Product URL 1	QN908x: Ultra-Low-Power Bluetooth Low Energy System on Chip (SoC) Solution | NXP
Product Description 1	QN908x is an ultra-low-power, high-performance and highly integrated Bluetooth Low Energy solution for Bluetooth® Smart applications such as sports and fitness, human interface devices, and app-enabled smart accessories. It is specially designed for wearable electronics with a small capacity battery.

Category Name 2:	Power Management
Product URL 1	MC34671 | Single-cell Battery Charger | NXP
Product Description 1	The MC34671 is a cost-effective fully integrated battery charger for Li-Ion or Li-Polymer batteries. It tolerates an input voltage up to 28 V, which eliminates the input over-voltage protection circuit required in handheld devices.
Product URL 2	Logic controlled high-side power switch | NXP
Product Description 2	The NX3P2902B is ideal for portable, battery operated applications due to low ground current and OFF-state current.

Category Name 3:	Sensor
Product URL 1	±8g, Low g, Digital Accelerometer | NXP
Product Description 1	The MMA8491Q 3-axis accelerometer is an ultra-low-power tilt sensor.

Category Name 4:	NFC
Product URL 1	NTAG 424 DNA | 424 DNA TagTamper – Advanced security and privacy for trusted IoT applications | NXP
Product Description 1	The NTAG 424 DNA is architected to provide AES-128 cryptographic operation, new SUN authentication mechanism upon each read-out by an NFC enabled mobile device, as well as sensitive data protection with crypto-secure access permissions.
Product URL 2	PN5180 | Full NFC Forum-compliant frontend IC | NXP
Product Description 2	The NXP PN5180 NFC frontend, equipped with unique features that improve performance, save energy, and maximize efficiency, enables best-in-class readers that conform to the requirements for EMVCo and NFC Forum specifications, for the broadest possible interoperability.

Category Name 5:	Secure
Product URL 1	A71CH | Plug and Trust for IoT | NXP
Product Description 1	A71CH is a ready-to-use secure element for IoT devices providing a root of trust at the IC level and delivers, chip-to-cloud security right out of the box, so you can safely connect to IoT clouds and services, including AWS, IBM Watson IoT™ Platform, and Google Cloud™ IoT Core without writing security code or exposing keys.
Product URL 2	EdgeLock™ SE050: Plug & Trust Secure Element Family – Enhanced IoT security with maximum flexibility...
Product Description 2	With the EdgeLock SE050 IoT devices incorporate security from the start, not as a bolt-on or afterthought. Credentials, preinjected as the root of trust, are stored in hardware and fully isolated from external software access.

Products

Product	Link
QN9080DK: A highly extensible platform for application development of QN908x	QN9080DK: A highly extensible platform for application development of QN908x | NXP
KIT34671EPEVBE: Evaluation Kit - 34671, Single-cell Li-Ion/Li-Poly Charger	Evaluation Kit - 34671, Single-cell Li-Ion/Li-Poly Charger | NXP
OM25180FDK: PN5180 NFC Frontend Development Kit for POS Terminal Applications	OM25180 |PN5180 NFC Development Kit for POS Readers | NXP