Hi,
I am the main coordinator of PEP Master, a project to design open source medical devices destined for open dissemination and DIY or decentralized fabrication. We are engaging with Health Canada for regulatory approval of medical devices that are brought to patients through alternative means, open source innovation and distributed fabrication. Our first case is an instrument that uses your MP3V5010DP pressure sensor. This sensor is the most critical component in our instrument, which can cause harm to a patient in case of malfunction. To comply with the strict safety and security requirements in the medical field, we would like to add to our instrument a method to identify and validate the authenticity of the pressure sensor. In other words, design an electronic layer on top of the core functional layer, to interrogate and confirm the authenticity of this particular component. I'd like to know if we can get some assistance from engineers that are involved with the design and fabrication of the MP3V5010DP sensor.
One way to think about this is spectroscopy, as a method to interrogate the molecular structure of a substance, revealing a unique fingerprint. By analogy, any electronic component has a unique way to respond, perhaps when exposed to a non-damaging transient electrical signal, based on its internal architecture. If a knockoff of the MP3V5010DP sensor is produced by another company, at lower cost, it would respond in a different way. These differences may come from the type of alloys used, the geometry (including thickness) of conductors, etc. My assumption is that an engineer that has contributed to the design of this sensor may be able to provide some ideas that we could test in our lab. These ideas may be derived from in-depth knowledge about the architecture of the sensor, compared with similar sensors produced by other companies.
As a motivator, our application has an interesting feature, perhaps not yet considered by NXP: we are developing new methods to build trust in decentralized innovation and production, peer production that is, which is part of a new economic paradigm that is exponentially growing since the 90'. Sensorica is a pioneer in material peer production, founded in 2011.
Moreover, since this project is open source and in collaboration with academia, your contribution will be acknowledged in various publications.
Furthermore, this project has a very strong humanitarian component, providing low cost medical treatment for rare disease that affect children. NXP can greatly leverage media about PEP Master for marketing purposes, branding/image.
You can find more about our project here
https://www.sensorica.co/ventures/scientific-instruments/pep-master
