A single wrist or ankle accelerometer can tell you how much an infant moved. It cannot tell you what the infant does. Our analytics would tell, second by second, whether they were lying, sitting, crawling, or standing. A systematic study shows why, and what the minimum is.
A clinician sees the infant for a very brief time in an unfamiliar room. MAIJU measures ordinary play at home, objectively and as often as a study needs — and the published evidence shows what that is worth.
A new Helsinki based company, spun out of the BABA Center research behind the MAIJU and NAPPA infant wearables, to take published methods into everyday use in research and care.
Academic research — infant and pediatric groups that need a reliable motor assessment of spontaneous activity out of hospital.
Global health and field studies — settings without a
laboratory; the method has been used in rural Malawi with 94% of
measurements technically successful.
Envisioned (pending regulatory approval):
Clinical follow-up and clinical decision support system — services following infants with an
identified or suspected developmental risk, where an objective, reliable and longitudinal motor assessment is required.
Our garments and analytics are currently intended for research use only. They do not have an official regulatory status as a medical device (e.g., CE-MD).
We are working to obtain such approvals.
19 peer-reviewed publications
have been produced with these devices — see the research.