SBIR Phase I: Advanced in-home technologies for infant thermoneutrality

SBIR 第一阶段：婴儿热中性的先进家用技术

• 批准号: 1913401
• 负责人: Oliver Smith
• 金额: $ 21.09万
• 依托单位: INNOGIZED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1913401&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Advanced; home; technologies

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Project is to enhance the well-being of babies and the quality of life of their caregivers and/or parents. Each week more than 2.5 million members of "Generation Alpha" are born globally to parents who expect and require technology driven feedback and support. Currently, this is not available in the area of sleep-time clothing choices, and so the ambiguous burden of these "art"-based decisions bears heavily on the minds of new parents. Medical bodies warn about limited capacity for infants to thermoregulate and the link between overheating and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Under-dressing is also problematic and can result in serious infant hypothermia. Caregivers are educated that they must dress babies optimally, as over or under-dressing babies can lead to significant problems, but they are not armed with any technologies to do so. We will develop a system of advanced technologies to scientifically guide and quantify the right sleep-time choices, leading to optimal conditions for safe, regenerative and developmental growth, while alleviating the burden of doubt from the caregiver. Uniquely, we will couple advanced technologies with an engaging education platform to deliver a highly impactful product, designed to immediately capture a sizable portion of the rapidly growing $23 billion USA baby care industry.The proposed project will develop advanced technologies capable of determining the thermal resistance of baby sleep clothes and sleep-sacks, and evaluating suitability with respect to the measured conditions of the sleep environment. Developed technologies will be deployed at the consumer level, in-home. Current technologies for measuring the thermal resistance of fabrics are prohibitively expensive, time consuming and laboratory based. Rapidly and robustly approximating to this technology for in-home and portable deployment is extremely complex. Research objectives include exploring and developing a variety of novel ways to characterize the physical properties of fabrics as they relate to thermal resistance, using complementary sensor-based suites to create new technologies, and creating powerful multifaceted algorithms that synergistically combine inputs and make deterministic conclusions. Results will be comparatively analyzed and the user will be provided with guidance to assist their choices through a graphical interface that also provides other state-of-the-art sleep-time education information, reaffirming best practices, right where they are vitally needed, at the point of sleep-time.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛影响是增强婴儿的福祉以及照料者和/或父母的生活质量。每周有250万“ Althale Alpha”成员在全球范围内出生于期望并需要技术驱动的反馈和支持的父母。目前，这在睡眠时间选择方面尚不可用，因此这些基于“艺术”的决定的模棱两可负担在新父母的心中很大。医疗机构警告说，婴儿的体温调节能力有限，以及过热与猝死综合症（SIDS）之间的联系。服装不足也是有问题的，可能导致婴儿体温过低。教育护理人员必须为婴儿穿着最佳打扮，因为上衣或穿衣服的婴儿可能会带来重大问题，但他们并没有武装任何技术来做到这一点。我们将开发一种先进技术系统，以科学指导和量化正确的睡眠时间选择，从而为安全，再生和发展增长带来最佳条件，同时减轻了看护者的怀疑负担。独特的是，我们将将高级技术与引人入胜的教育平台相结合，以提供高度影响力的产品，旨在立即捕获迅速增长的230亿美元的美国婴儿护理行业的相当一部分。拟议的项目将开发能够确定婴儿睡眠服和睡眠的热阻力的先进技术，并评估适合与睡眠环境的适用性。开发的技术将在家庭中部署。当前用于测量织物热阻力的技术非常昂贵，耗时和基于实验室。快速且牢固地近似于该技术，用于内部和便携式部署非常复杂。研究目标包括探索和开发各种新颖的方法来表征与热阻力相关的织物的物理特性，并使用基于互补的传感器的套件来创建新技术，并创建强大的多方面算法，以协同结合输入并做出确定性的结论。结果将进行比较分析，并将为用户提供指导，以通过图形界面提供其他最先进的睡眠时间教育信息，重申最佳实践，即在睡眠时间上有效地需要的地方。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估智能委员会进行了评估和广泛的影响。