Smart cushion Darma with wearable ideas to do physical signs monitoring

The market can correct posture, monitoring signs of wearable equipment has been a lot, but these products need to be at any time, special wear, more or less inconvenient, is really a bit less flattering. Smart Cushion Darma is a different idea to do out of the "not wearable products."

When they first contacted Darma in June of this year, they also prepared Kickstarter in Silicon Valley in the United States. Now this product has successfully raised 169,000 dollars in Kickstarter.

The main function of Darma is posture monitoring and reminding. With pressure sensors and fiber-optic sensors, Darma can tell you where you are sitting and whether you are leaning forward, backward, or sedentary. When you sit up for a long time or do not have a standard sitting posture, Darma will remind you of the matching APP. In addition, through the optical fiber sensor, monitoring heartbeat, respiration and other data, Darma can analyze whether you are now too much pressure, and give advice.

Similar products have a lot of domestic giraffe friends, foreign upright, lumoback. Darma's biggest bright spot is that a 30cm X 30cm optical fiber sensor is implanted in the cushion, which can monitor the user's heartbeat, respiration and other data, and the precision is close to the professional medical equipment. Optical fiber sensor has the advantages of high sensitivity, large dynamic range, fast response, no electromagnetic interference, explosion-proof, anti-corrosion, etc. This technology is widely used in the fields of industry and medicine, however, because of its high cost, it has not been used in the Consumer product field. Through 5 years of research, Darma team has optimized the price of optical fiber sensors, the use of optical fiber sensors Darma cushion price can be achieved under 200 U.S. dollars. This time, early supporters can get a darma at a price of 99 dollars, which is expected to be shipped next June.

Darma's founder, Hu Junhao, now wants to focus on doing the product well, and they've found three experts to do data analysis to improve the user experience. He also told 36 Krypton that smart cushions were just their first step, and in the future they would also implant fiber sensors into seats, sofas and even mattresses to try to keep the product invisible. Although optical fiber sensors can be measured with high accuracy, Hu Junhao says they are not yet ready to make darma into medical supplies and still focus on the health sector.

The concept of wearable equipment is very hot, but the smart hardware can not be dressed simply for wearable, so Darma product form is still very interesting. Recently Guitarhero co-founder Charles Huang and Kai Huang also became Darma Advisor.