NeuroOn Open
open hardware sleep mask
Hackaday Unconference LA 2017
alxd@alxd.org
CC-BY Pawel 'alxd' Chojnacki
alxd
open source & science
Warsaw, Poland
not affiliated with Intelclinic
December 2013
Polyphasic sleep (6 hours a day!)
Artificial intelligence!
No working prototype shown
No research / whitepapers
I started a blog just to debunk them:
3 dry electrodes too few for a valuable EEG
no details on algorithms beyond "AI"
no specifics, only buzzwords
raw signal access costs extra $450
Other specialists claimed:
polyphasic sleep not accessible to everybody
lucid dreaming either
When the masks hit the market I asked for a test unit
I conducted a professional experiment in a hospital lab
Compared NeuroOn signal and sleep staging with medical-grade polysomnograph
All signals and analysis are available on my blog within
Open Notebook philosophy
The analysis was co-created with a local
National Academy of Sciences researcher
and is available as Jupyter Notebook
The total NeuroOn accuracy with their in-house, closed algorithms was estimated as roughly 65% as compared
to a polysomnograph
There was however a big surprise...
NeuroOn raw signal is surprisingly good!
Delta power analysis - note distinctively specific bands for BOTH the polysomnograph and NeuroOn
NeuroOn could be useful not only for Quantified Self enthusiasts, but also research teams, offering very low cost sleep analytics for big population experiments!
It does possess medical safety certification, which should actually allow researchers
to use it
At the beginning of this year,
the company behind the NeuroOn
asked me for help in open-sourcing their mask
They would like to open
the hardware
the firmware
the software
used to connect the mask to a computer and conduct sleep staging locally
If everything goes well, there may even be a way to connect it to the OpenBCI ecosystem, allowing all existing programs written for this platform to seamlessly run on NeuroOn!
With all the programs already written for the OpenBCI platform and NeuroOn's simplicity we could finally have open hardware EEG devices for the masses!
Photo CC-BY-NC Rain Rabbit
This slide is copyrighted by Intelclinic and should not be reproduced
Right now the company is working on choosing the licenses and finalizing the legal documents, but is committed to the cause.
Intelclinic has just got over 1.6 million EUR
(1.7 million USD) grant from Horizon 2020 program for pursuing new NeuroOn-family medical-level sleep analysis devices.
They are interested in open sourcing
their new projects from the start
If you're interested in helping to open source the NeuroOn mask, please contact me at:
alxd@alxd.org
Intelclinic should have some free masks / PCBs
available for the first several people willing to help
and their hackerspaces :)