Stress is a huge problem in the workplace, costing U.S. businesses $30 billion loss per year in lost work days alone. Vital Neuro’s innovative platform offers a solution to these concerns through stress reduction as a service. By making devices more intelligent in the workplace, the Internet of Things (IoT) aims to turn workers happier and more efficient. It also allows for measuring productivity by using real-time data.
According to a report by Sodexo, IoT has a potential to make staff more efficient, by using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded in the devices. Vital Neuro’s special scientific team has created a neuromodulation technology delivered through an AI-enabled cloud service.
Vital is a track and train stress solution. Vital Neuro’s ground-breaking solution is equipped with stylish, wireless, high fidelity headphones and an application that is linked to Vital’s Leonardo smart cloud platform. By measuring the real-time brain biosignals, a calming audio & video experience is delivered to reduce the individual’s stress levels.
The advancements in physical spaces, the increased flexibility, and the increased efficiency to the workflow add up to a hugely improved quality of life for everyone in IoT-supported workplace environments. IoT linked wearables helps workers remain safe. For example, SmartCap Technologies of Australia produces a “fatigue monitoring solution” to detect “microsleeps” in truck drivers. We may have seen people lying on an expensive machine that records brain activity. A miniature device similar to this called headsets (Biofeedback headsets) measures our brain waves using EEG.
Vital has a mobile SaaS for enterprise customers where employers provide their staffs with neuroscience-based stress reduction sessions-built on real-time monitoring of one's biosignals. This results in improved job satisfaction, higher productivity, lower employee turnover, and increased EBITDA. More stress can lead to more work which turns into increased back injuries.
The main four main pillars of Vital Neuro make stress better every day:
- BRAIN PLASTICITY: Brain is flexible as it is shaped by our experiences. Plasticity can be guided & directed. It has the ability to modify and re-wire itself.
- FEEDBACK LOOPS: Brain reorganizes when information is given on itself through feedback; Automatic learning & habit formation; Guided toward optimal performance.
- NEUROSCIENCE BASED SOUND & MUSIC: Sound & music impact the brain and modulate its function; Audio entrainment & resonance; Activation & inhibition
- INTERACTIVE PSYCHOEDUCATION: Interactive learning (ex. respiration training); Learn principles of brain health while developing skills; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy; Mindful meditation through science.
Vital Neuro has pioneered the science-based, stress-relief mobile cloud-based service. They believe to be the world’s largest sound and music database targeted at neuromodulation and has the potential to collect huge EEG data through IoT devices, used by a number of companies.
Vital Smart wireless headset easily sits on head and measure activity (EEG) through sensors which in turn feedbacks to the headset to generate calm and soothing music. It connects to the mobile application powered by Leonardo smart cloud platform. Vital's smart cloud continuously learn to be more accurate in predicting the ideals sounds to stream with music and images, helping people relax and reduce their stress.
Other players in this industry claim to improve IQ by playing certain games and lean towards western techniques like an electric stimulation of the brain at a different cranial location, which may be an invasive solution and can cause harm to users or children.
In contrast, Vital uses a machine learning algorithm, IoT techniques and scientific methods to power and modulate stress levels and train brain to remain at lower levels, with only 15 minutes of daily usage, by reading signature in the brain related to relaxation state. As soon as one attains the relaxation state, music changes and gets personalized.
Vital believe that it is defining and segmenting and will transform into a global service for any human experiencing stress. It has reached a final prototyping stage and raising funds to commercialize the product and launch it in the market soon.
Edited by
Ken Briodagh
