NMT's ETag Makes a Big Splash at NASA's
NEEMO 14 Mission
During Mission Day 3, the ETag team achieved one of their primary objectives on the NEEMO 14 mission. They successfully demonstrated realtime telemedicine monitoring from the Aquarius habitat back to the NEEMO 14 mission control center. This developmental technology is being used to pioneer next-generation medical monitoring by using the ETag diagnostic platform to monitor people in a variety of extreme environments, starting with the NEEMO 14 mission.
The NMT ETag is a small, credit-card-sized, radar-based medical device that is worn on the chest. The core of the technology is the TAP (Transducer Antenna Probe) which uses RFII (Radio Frequency Impedance Interrogation) to passively gather medical data from the aquanauts. It was originally developed for combat casualty care, and is now being used to monitor the aquanauts on board Aquarius.
As the aquanauts continued their NEEMO 14 mission, the ETag doctor was able to medically monitor them from land. This was the first successful technology demonstration of the mission, and a giant step forward in the potential of telemedicine. The data collected from the aquanauts includes heart rate, respiration, cardiac performance and position. The ETag also collects the environmental temperature surrounding each aquanaut.
. Chris A. Hadfield, a
Canadian Space Agency astronaut and veteran spacewalker,
Tom H. Marshburn, a
NASA astronaut and flight surgeon
and Dr. Steve Chappell conducting
realtime telemedicine monitoring in the Aquarius Habitat.
 
Aquanaut Andrew and the Aquarius hab techs Dr. Marc O Griofa conducting realtime telemedicine
being monitored by the ETags during normal activitites monitoring from the NEEMO 14 mission control center
To Review the NEEMO 14 Mission and view pictures and blogs from aquanauts throughout the mission please click on the links below.
Aquarius Research Station
NASA - NEEMO Mission |
