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

SBIR 第二阶段：婴儿热中性的先进家用技术

• 批准号: 2051808
• 负责人: Oliver Smith
• 金额: $ 98.17万
• 依托单位: INNOGIZED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-15 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2051808&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Advanced; home

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Phase II project will be to empower and educate caregivers to make scientifically guided decisions that enable safer and optimally nurturing sleep environments for infants. Every year more than 130 million babies are born and over 4 million of those are born in the U.S. Due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), 300 babies every month may not live to see their first birthday. SIDS remains the leading cause of death for babies aged one month to one year. Infant mortality rates in the U.S. are higher than in the 20 wealthiest nations. Innogized Technologies has developed a transformative Internet of Things technology (IoT) that combines hardware and analytics to enable caregivers to make better sleep-time decisions, avoiding overheating, a known stressor for SIDS. The technology guides caregivers to deliver optimal conditions for safe, regenerative and developmental growth for their infants anywhere and anytime, while at the same time relieving anxiety. This technology is poised to immediately capture a sizable portion of the rapidly growing $1 billion US baby monitoring solutions market.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will support the development of a novel consumer product that works with caregivers to proactively mitigate the risk of under/overheating events in newborns. Sleep-time clothing choices are thermodynamically matched with environmental conditions to create baby-specific safe sleep environments. The temperatures are maintained by leveraging the inherent connectivity of the IoT platform. The technology integrates thermal resistance measurements, thermal models and maps, advanced algorithms, and predictive monitoring. The research objectives of the project tackle the most important remaining technical challenges driving towards successful commercialization and adoption of a product that is essentially an intelligent system, capable of understanding context and tracking and managing complex interactions while anticipating requirements. The technical product of this research will advance caregiver knowledge and increase understanding of the applied thermodynamics leading to the advantageous state of thermoneutrality as well as increase infant wellbeing.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.

该第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是授权和教育护理人员做出科学指导的决策，从而为婴儿提供更安全，最佳的培育睡眠环境。 每年，由于婴儿猝死综合症（SIDS），每年有超过1.3亿婴儿出生，其中有超过400万婴儿出生在美国，每月300名婴儿可能不会活着看他们的第一个生日。 小溪仍然是一个月至一年的婴儿死亡的主要原因。 美国的婴儿死亡率高于最富有的国家。 Innogized Technologies开发了一种变革性的事物技术（IoT），该技术结合了硬件和分析，以使护理人员能够做出更好的睡眠时间决策，避免过热，这是SIDS的已知压力。 该技术指导护理人员为婴儿和随时随地的婴儿提供最佳条件，以确保婴儿的安全，再生和发育的增长，同时缓解焦虑症。 这项技术有望立即捕获美国婴儿监测解决方案市场迅速增长的大部分。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将支持开发新型消费者，该产品与护理人员合作，以主动减轻新生儿中/过度热门活动的风险。睡眠时间的选择在热力学上与环境条件相匹配，以创建婴儿特定的安全睡眠环境。 通过利用物联网平台的固有连接来维持温度。该技术集成了热电阻测量，热模型和地图，高级算法和预测性监测。 该项目的研究目标解决了最重要的剩余技术挑战，这些技术挑战推动了成功的商业化和采用基本上是智能系统的产品，能够理解上下文，跟踪和管理复杂的互动，同时预测需求。 这项研究的技术产品将提高护理人员的知识，并提高对应用热力学的了解，从而提高热责任状态，并增加婴儿健康状况。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。