Momega Ltd is founded, and the site is open
A new Helsinki 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.
Momega Ltd was founded in Helsinki in 2026 by members of the research group at the BABA Center, New Children's Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital. This site opens with it.
Where it comes from
For several years the BABA Center has been developing wearables that measure infants where they actually live — at home, during ordinary days and nights — instead of during a short visit to a clinic. Two of them are ready to leave the laboratory:
- MAIJU, a suit with four movement sensors that measures gross motor development during play.
- NAPPA, a wearable diaper cover that follows an infant's sleep, respiration and position through the night.
The work has gone step by step, and every step has been published. For MAIJU, the most extensively studied so far, that meant first showing that a four-sensor garment could record ordinary play reliably, then that an algorithm could classify postures and movements as well as trained observers, then that the results held up against established clinical scales, physical growth charts and independent cohorts — in Helsinki homes and in rural Malawi. The group has published nineteen peer-reviewed papers on these wearables since 2019, all of them listed on the research page. More wearables are in development at the BABA Center, and they will follow the same route.
Why a company
A published method is not yet something another team can use. They need garments made in the right sizes, sensors that arrive paired and working, an analysis service that is kept running and versioned, instructions a family can follow, and someone to answer when a recording goes wrong. That is what a research group or a clinic needs before it can plan around a method, and a university project is not built to provide it. Momega is.
The science stays where it was. Members of the team that developed and validated these methods are building the company, and the analyses offered here are the ones described in the papers. As new wearables from the BABA Center are validated, this is where they will become available.
What is on the site
- Garments — MAIJU for motor development and NAPPA for sleep, with their sizes, materials and care.
- Cloud analytics — what a recording returns, from the BABA Infant Motor Score and normative growth charts to sleep detection, and how long a recording needs to be.
- Research — every publication, with the measure each one validated.
- Resources — instructions and answers to common questions.
Get in touch
If you are planning a study or a follow-up service and want to know which of our wearables fits it, request a quote or write to info@momega.fi. Tell us the age range and what you want to measure; that is usually enough to give a useful first answer.