Kickstarter funded!
We’ve reached our funding goal of $15,000 to manufacture MonBaby, and collected more than $16,000, and that is a HUGE accomplishment thanks to all of you for your pledges, comments, likes and shares over the last 30 days.
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THANK YOU to those of you who came out to support us at the last night’s New York Tech Meetup!
Our demo of Monbaby features was well-received by hundreds of audience members and media. You can check out the video of our demo here:
The full NYTM videocast is here (our section begins at the 40-minute mark).
Read Morekickstarter reload
Today, Oct 6th, Mondevices re-launched a brand new Kickstarter campaign for Monbaby.
Click on a http://bit.ly/supportmonbaby link to go to the campaign.
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Monbaby at NY Tech Meetup tonight
Monbaby is going to NY Tech Meetup tonight to demo technology and to announce the start of a new Kickstarter campaign!
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Lack of movement detection
This is demo of Monbaby product in action. I’m showing a demo of two features based on corresponding algorithms. One is detection of lack of motion and another one is detection of lack of movement. Note that those two are separate, you can still be moving and no rate detected.
Read Moreorder on monbaby.com
Monbaby is available now directly on monbaby.com for pre-orders.
Order Monbaby Now! Read MoreThe MonBaby In 2014 Press
Here are all the collections of news stories about the MonBaby
www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/03/29/backerjack-presents-3-great-crowdfunded-gadgets/
www.backerjack.com/monbaby-is-a-wireless-window-into-your-wee-ones-world/
www.gizmag.com/monbaby-smart-button-baby-sleeping/31319/
www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/03/nothing-is-more-important-than.html
focus.ti.com/en/download/aap/enewsletters/rf_201208_newsletter.htm
walyou.com/monbaby-smart-button-is-a-next-gen-baby-monitor/
www.coolwearable.com/monbaby-sleep-monitor-wearable-baby/
Read MoreDiving into the Shark Tank at a Smart Fabrics Conference
Mondevices went to San Francisco to dive in the Shark Tank at a Smart Fabrics Conference
http://www.smartfabricsconference.com/get-in-the-shark-tank.aspx
Stay tuned
Read MoreNJBIZ published article about Monbaby
NJBIZ, NJ weekly business journal, published an article about us:
http://www.njbiz.com/article/20140407/NJBIZ01/304049990/Crowdfunding-success-can-help-kickstart-interest-from-VC-firms
Read MoreOur kickstarter campaign is at a tipping point!
Our campaign have reached so called tipping point of 30%, http://kickstarterguide.com/2012/06/20/the-kickstarter-project-tipping-point/!
Thank you! But let’s keep the momentum going. Please tell you friends and families about us and spread the word!
Read MoreMondevices are going to the Shark Tank!
Mondevices are getting into the Shark Tank at a Smart Fabrics Conference in San Francisco this April:
http://www.smartfabricsconference.com/get-in-the-shark-tank.aspx
Mondevices will be one of the “…three start-up companies or entrepreneurs will pitch a new and innovative product/technology … to our Shark Tank Panelists to get future business connections, advice and guidance. The selected projects will also have the opportunity of presenting in front of our 200+ audience of brand owners, end users, apparel companies, wearable technology developers, design agencies, integrators, electronics suppliers, fashion technologies and future textile professionals.”
We are honored and fired up by this opportunity!
Stay tuned for more news!
Read MoreGizmag wrote an article about Monbaby campaign
Gizmag published an article about Monbaby and this campaign:
http://www.gizmag.com/monbaby-smart-button-baby-sleeping/31319/
One small correction to the article: “Looking like a large button, the device features a built-in MEMS 140-bit accelerometer to track motion, the baby’s orientation, activity levels and movement.”
It should read 14-bit accelerometer.
Read MoreKickstarter is in progress!
Monbaby launched on Kickstarter, please go to the campaign link:
Please also check out our product page: www.monbaby.com
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Baby Monitor in a Button
Baby Monitor in a Button
Monbaby is a wearable sleep sensor for your newborn baby packed in a “smart” button. “Smart button” technology is a universal sleep analyzer that can be attached to any article of clothing. It snaps just as easily to your father’s favorite pajamas as to your newborn baby onesies.
[wp_cart_button name=”Monbaby” price=”119.0″]
This technology have won a special prize in WT 2014 competition in Munich
This technology is applicable to all ages, but we decided to first implement it parents of newborn babies and small kids.
Using this product you will be able to lift your anxiety about how your newborn babies sleep at night. Monbaby does it by measuring and classifying motion, movements, position, orientation and activity levels and sending it to parents smartphone. It detects movements and falls and streams data to a smartphone app, where information is displayed in a convenient, easy-to-understand manner.
Monbaby contains a precise MEMS 14bit accelerometer that measures movements, orientation and activity level. Measurements are done in real-time, 5 times per second and transmitted over Bluetooth (4.0) Low Energy to an iPhone app or any Smart Bluetooth capable device. The sensor is powered by 3V coin-cell battery giving 5 weeks of constant use and 1 year in passive mode. The antenna operating range is 40 ft in the line of sight, but it may be more limited in some homes depending on environment, such as wall materials, electromagnetic noise and other obstructions.
Measurements are transmitted over Bluetooth (4.0) Low Energy to an iPhone or Android smartphone
The latest crowd-funding campaign video:
The video of a fully functional prototype for iPhone is here:
http://youtu.be/n5nM4KzbXyw
and for Android here:
Here is our presentation at CES 2012:
Smartphone apps re-transmit data further to a cloud, so that information could be shared on the web site. Historical data can be viewed on the web. Our Bio-Data Analytics Library is developed to apply more sophisticated data analysis to detect any deviations from norm. We see it as a step toward real-time diagnosis.
Unlike existing baby monitors that only monitor baby activity passively, Monbaby warns parents if baby turned around and sleeping on a stomach, giving parents plenty of time to go and turn baby face up, as sleeping on stomach is not recommended by American Academy of Pediatrics. It also does not have dangerous cords. RF emissions of Bluetooth Low Energy are 10 times less than existing baby monitors RF emissions. Most importantly we working on Bio-Data Analytics Tools that could integrate with other devices and databases.
Same technology stack works for your elder parents from convenience of their homes.
People wear jewelry, rings, bracelets. In the future, we see all the jewelry will perform function of health monitoring. We envision development of the whole new markets of Bio-Data analytics, where jewelry and clothing will turn into real-time health monitors and will be part of on-going real-time diagnosis systems. No longer will we go to doctors for them to find out what’s wrong, doctors will call us when they see troubling signs on our health dashboard.
We see Monbaby as a first step towards it.
Monbaby let’s you know that your loved ones are sleeping fine.
- What can Monbaby measure?
- Who should use Monbaby?
- What devices can be used to receive Monbaby data?
- What other potential usages for Monbaby?
- Any concerns about using Monbaby?
What can Monbaby measure?
- Movement
- Freefall
- Shaking
Who should use Monbaby?
- Any household who has babies or young children
- Newborn babies in hospital nursery room
- Young children in hospital pediatric department
- Elderly in the elderly caring facilities
- Folks who need active external care
What devices can be used to receive Monbaby?
Monbaby was designed with adopted health care profiles of Bluetooth 4.0, therefore any Bluetooth LE compatible devices can be used as the data receiver. For example, iPhones, android phones, PC with a BLE doggle, or even a monitoring watch …etc. The detail can be illustrated by the following diagram:-
What are the other potential usages?
- Vital signals tracking logs
- Collected data can be stored on the receiver device for a set amount of time.
- When pediatrician asks for the fever information, simply pull out the history log in a second of effort.
- Cloud access for the health data
- Check your baby condition any time anywhere.
- Data analysis for research purpose
- With a big users base, all the health data can be collected anonymously for research purpose.
- Health experts can now have some solid real-life data to base on for their research.
Any concerns about using Monbaby?
- Radio Frequency (RF) emission
- Monbaby uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for its wireless data transmission.
- Compare to a lot of existing baby monitoring products currently sold in the market, BLE incurs only a small fraction of RF emission.
- Wireless transmission can also be minimized by configuring the device to send data only on critical events.
- Battery
- Monbaby operates on a CR2032 3V battery.
Our Product is Smart Clothing Winner at Innovation World Cup in Munich
We came back from Munich and not empty handed but with a prize!
Mondevices have won a special prize for best Smart Clothing solution for a smart button product.
Here is the link to their PR and a excerpt from it below:
http://bit.ly/monbabywon2014wt and the transcript is
here: 140128_PR_WT IWC_Winner
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And, last but not least, the best Smart Clothing solution, also a special prize, went to Smart Button by Artur Technologies LLC. The button can be attached to any pajama or nightgown to monitor sleep movements, activities, and movment in real-time, streaming the data to a mobile device.
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Now Mondevices is listed in WT hall of fame:
http://www.wearable-technologies.com/innovation-worldcup/hall-of-fame/
Thank you Munich!
Read MoreCreating hypnogram from accelerometer based signal
Creating hypnogram from accelerometer based signal
Presented here are results of preliminary sleep analysis. This paper documents an attempt to create a hypnogram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnogram)
using purely sleep activity data recorded by Monbaby (https://mondevices.com/monbaby) sensor. The subject was yours truly.
Typically hypnograms are done using EEG, this is an attempt to do it using 3D accelerometer signal.
Below is a hypnogram of normal, healthy adult copied from the Wikipedia article.
Methodology was to convert raw output of accelerometer into a proxy signal that represents activity – first graph above on the first figure.
Second graph is aggregation of number of abrupt movements plotted over time, time interval for aggregation is 30 minutes. The interval divided into 5 quantiles that represent 5 stages of sleep. They are represented as horizontal dotted lines on a second graph. Anything above the top line is Wake state, everything below bottom, deep sleep. Not sure if this method can detect REM state, but it will be among lower quantiles.
So far those are inconclusive results and the method to derive hypnogram from accelerometer data remains untested. But it looks sufficiently encouraging to continue research.
-Arturas Vaitaitis Ph.D.2014-01-24
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Bluetooth IWC
Every year, Wearable Technologies and Bluetooth SIG holds an innovation world cup where contestants submit their product ideas. Among hundreds of ideas, 9 finalists are chosen and given an opportunity to either promote their existing product or bring their ideas into fruition. Our first product, Monbaby, was one of the finalists for 2011 Bluetooth IWC.
More details on this competition can be found on the following link:
http://www.bluetooth.com/Pages/IWC.aspx
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