Description
SmartSocks®DISCOVERY
Real-Time Physiological Data Capture for Research Use
(Anticipated ship date November 2024)
SmartSocks®DISCOVERY has been designed to provide researchers into human health and neurocognitive diseases such as dementia with a data collection platform to enable them to unobtrusively collect data from wearers that find wrist and other wearables irritating or even frightening and remove them.
SmartSocks®DISCOVERY gathers real-time data on electrodermal activity, heart rate and heart rate variability, skin temperature, and motion. They are comfortable and machine washable at 30 degrees C.
SmartSocks®DISCOVERY Comprises:
- five (5) hand washable SmartSocks®
- two removable sensors for continuous data collection
- a wired charger
- socks designed to withstand up to 50 machine washes at 30°C when washed in a laundry bag (provided)
- a removeable sensor which contains: an optical heart rate sensor (PPG), optical skin temperature sensor, electrodermal activity sensor, 6-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU)
- 16-hour battery life between chargers
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth™ connectivity (Bluetooth is omitted in the initial release but will eventually provide a real-time streaming capability).
- persistent storage to buffer data for up to 3 hours if Wi-Fi connectivity is lost or unavailable
- a web dashboard for sock status, data visualisation and CSV downloads.
- an API to connect with other software systems.
- unlimited data storage for historical data sessions
- free over-the-air firmware updates
- a 12-month warranty on the sensor unit
- an online user training package
- 9-5 (GMT) technical support for a one year