Medical devices

FlowSense Home / Lynx

Longitudinal home-use wearable for continuous hydrocephalus monitoring in daily life and sleep.

completed 2023–2025 WearablesHome monitoringThermal sensingClinical workflow
Type product
Skills Wearable sensing, Home-use workflow, Thermal visualization, Data organization

Project summary

Why it exists, what I built, and what I learned.

Why I built it

I wanted to move FlowSense from in-clinic spot checks into a durable home-use wearable system.

What I built

Wearable device builds, data organization workflows, thermal visualization, charging and adhesive iteration, and home-use study support.

What worked

The system became useful because it translated patient and clinician feedback into better placement, charging, and data-quality decisions.

What failed

Home-use wearables expose edge cases around placement, motion, charging, and adhesion that are hard to see in the lab.

What I learned

Successful home monitoring depends as much on workflow and usability as it does on sensor performance.

Stack

Tools, systems, and technical areas involved.

Wearable sensingQi chargingThermal mapsPatient feedbackHome-use studySignal quality

Links and direction

Public links and next steps.

Next Future direction

Keep simplifying the user workflow and expand the same sensing platform to adjacent use cases.

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