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Testing With Patients at Egas Moniz Hospital

Testing With Patients at Egas Moniz Hospital

Field testing From the lab bench to a clinical environment Our team visited Egas Moniz Hospital to test the first version of our wearable motion-tracking prototype with patients and collect feedback from a real physiotherapy context.

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First Version Of The Prototype Is Available

First Version Of The Prototype Is Available

  • 19 May 2026

The team has finalized the first version of the hardware prototype. This preliminary version includes 4 nodes (2 ankle and 2 knee). The remaining hip node is still being soldered and its case is being 3D printed.

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Meeting With Egas Moniz Hospital Neurologist

  • 12 May 2026

The team met with Dra. Marta Magriço, neurology specialist at Hospital de Egas Moniz, to present our project and discuss the possibility of testing the prototype with patients.

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Fifth Meeting With Our Project Supervisor

  • 07 May 2026

Today we held the fifth meeting with our project supervisor. We discussed topics such as updates on prototype assembly, website redesign, dashboard development and overall next steps.

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Website Redesign

  • 06 May 2026

We’ve completely overhauled the project website, featuring a new look that’s more consistent with the dashboard’s design language.

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Intermediate Presentation

  • 30 Apr 2026

The team presented our intermediate pitch to the project supervisor and other ElectroCap groups, where we went over the system architecture, solution beneficiaries, technical challenges, progress up to this point and future timeline.

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First Web App Dashboard Version Is Under Development

  • 29 Apr 2026

We’ve started development of the Web App integration, which consists of a clinician-ready dashboard that displays the gait metrics from a given phisiotherapy session. As was the case with our private Python test scripts, the user can select a saved csv file, containing the IMU data from that session, on top of which the fusion algorythms will be applied to compute the metrics.

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Go For Final Prototype Assembly

  • 29 Apr 2026

The remaining voltage regulators have finally arrived, which means we have all the necessary hardware components in hand.

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Software Development Is Under Way

  • 24 Apr 2026

As the first test node was assembled and the team got access to all 5 Arduino boards, we have now started developing the software that’s going to enable the evaluation of gait metrics from the data received from the IMU nodes via BLE.

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Fourth Meeting With Our Project Supervisor

  • 23 Apr 2026

Today we held the fourth meeting with our project supervisor. We discussed topics such as following up on meetings with potential partners, updates on prototype assembly and overall next steps.

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