Multi-Modal Miniature Integrated Circuit Reporting Overall Status: MICROS Navy STTR FY2014.A Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2014.A Topic No.: N14A-T019 Topic Title: Multi-Modal Miniature Integrated Circuit Reporting Overall Status: MICROS Proposal No.: N14A-019-0258 Firm: Vivonics, Inc. 303 Bear Hill Road Suite 200 Waltham, Massachusetts 02451-1016 Contact: Anna Galea Phone: (781) 373-1930 Web Site: www.vivonics.com Abstract: Continuous monitoring of bioelectrical signals can provide valuable insight to subject's stress, fatigue, resilience, and overall health. A rugged, miniaturized, low-power integrated circuit that has the ability to detect a wide variety of signals using noncontact electrodes lends itself to a valuable platform for a wearable system to assess an individual's physical and mental status. We propose such a system, comprised of sensing modules that are body-position agnostic, and a software package which wirelessly collects data from the sensors and presents the desired signals or derived physiologic parameters. The system is called "Multi-Modal Miniature Integrated Circuit Reporting Overall Status: MICROS". MICROS builds on underlying technology that has been developed by Vivonics in partnership with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in order to achieve a system of miniature, wearable sensors with the ultimate goal that the sensor modules are sufficiently small and low-power that they can derive all their power needs from energy harvested from the human body. Here we propose to integrate the developed sensing technology into a single module that can be used anywhere on the body to reliably detect, record, and transmit body surface potentials from ECG, EEG, or EDR. Benefits: MICROS unobtrusively measures bioelectrical signals from anywhere on the body, dynamically identifies the underlying source of the signals, and presents individual waveforms as well as physiologic parameters derived from the available data streams. Combined with monitoring and analysis software on a mobile platform, MICROS will provide comprehensive, real time data on physical and mental readiness for military and commercial applications. Return