Important notice:  this is a fixed funding campaign. If we will not reach our goal, WE WILL REFUND anyone who has ordered iHearty and will want his/her money back. 

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iHearty is a smart cover that listens for any signals around you and communicates with your smartphone.

Every day we spend a lot of time with our smartphone in our hands. iHearty through this continuous contact acquires useful information about our health. 

A dedicated set of sensors makes iHearty also able to monitor the conditions of your ambient.

iHearty is an elegantly designed universal case suitable with most of the smartphones.
iHearty uses a set of body sensors and ambient sensors to measure and analyze:

• Heart rate
• Skin temperature
• Oxygen saturation
• Humidity 
• Pressure
• Temperature
• UV index

iHearty is a slim case equipped with powerful embedded sensors on the metallic plate to the back.  

iHearty is a Bluetooth enabled device able to give a real feedback about your status. 

iHearty gives the ability to carry an accurate physiological monitor anywhere, without additional devices.
One of the advantages of iHearty is that it allows everyone to make baseline measurements at any time, building a database that could allow for improved detection of disease states. 

ECG: AF detection
Heart related diseases kill more and more people every year. The cost to detect and treat cardiovascular disease is too high. Monitoring and assessing the health of the heart for every cardiac cycle is of important and essential.
iHearty could be used to detect atrial fibrillation (AF), which is the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia. AF is often asymptomatic and undiagnosed and is responsible for around a third of all strokes.
An estimated 2.66 million people will have atrial fibrillation in 2010. As many as 12 million people will have the condition by 2050.

SpO2: monitoring level of oxygen in respiratory disease

iHearty monitors the level of oxygen in the subject's blood and alerts if oxygen levels drop below safe levels, allowing rapid intervention. iHearty detects changes that could indicate early signs of hypoxemia, or less-than-safe levels of oxygen in the blood. This is very important for patients with respiratory or cardiac problems, especially chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or for diagnosis of some sleep disorders such as apnea and hypopnea.

Skin Temperature

Skin temperature is an effective indicator for objectively evaluating human sensations, because it is controlled by sympathetic nerve activity which reflects the course of information processing in the brain.
The temperature of our hands is connected to our stress level: when we are stressed, we tend to have cold hands. Changes in hand temperature are a reflection of blood flow - a measure of the stress response.
iHearty uses temperature sensor to detect ovulation for the best chance of getting pregnant. 

•  Dimensions: about 95mm x 55mm x 10mm    

•  Lithium long lasting battery + usb cable to recharge

•  Communication: Bluetooth Low Energy (4.0)

•  Body sensors:

  -  ECG wave: single lead

  -  Skin temperature: IR contactless sensor from - 40°C to 125 °C +/- 0.5 °C

  -  Pulse oxymeter (oxygen saturation plus heartbeat): from 70% SPO2 to 100%          SPO2 +/-2% SPO2; from 20 BPM to  250 BPM +/- 3 BPM

•  Ambient sensors:

  -  Relative humidity from 0 to 100% +/-2%

  -  Atmosferic pressure from 260 hPa to 1260 hPa

  -  Temperature from - 40 °C to 150 °C +/- 0.3 °C

  -  UV index from 1 to 11+ (WHO scale)

iHearty is controlled from a free app that can help you to improve the quality of your life monitoring important vital signs and the quality of your ambient conditions.

Thanks to an universal attachment plate it can be adhered to an existing case on your mobile device or to the device itself.

We designed iHearty to be right- and left-hand friendly...

...and to match it with your personality choosing your favorite color.

NOTE: iHearty is still under development, so minor design changes are possible.

iHearty is still under development, but once complete it could be used to detect potentially dangerous health conditions and warn you, your family, your friends or your physician.

As a research tool, the product will not pose any risk to users and can be used to collect, store and display all your information, but without making specific disease diagnosis.

iHearty app will be open source.We'll have an open API so developers will be able to use iHearty to create apps for iOS, Android, and other devices that support Bluetooth Low Energy (4.0).

For the future, we are planning to get all the necessary certifications to make iHearty a medical device and your contributions are very important and necessary to help us into reaching this significant goal.

We need your help to finalize the design, order the first production batch of the sensors and complete the mobile application.
We already have first prototypes of the device ready.

The money will be used to finalize production tools, order components for the first production batch, and further development and testing of the app for both iOS and Android platforms.

We are very excited about this project and hope you are too. We appreciate your support and please share iHearty with your friends too!

The amount of funding we require to achieve the final milestones is $125,000. 

We hope you will find it in your heart to help us deliver this long sought after, valuable and useful technology.

Ettore Giordano. Master degree in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano. After foreign working experiences in Spain, Brazil, China and Turkey, he is now fixed in Milan to work in his own studio.  Essential component of his work is the ability to cross several disciplines, from more architectural traditional ones to those which relate more to our times such as semiotics, cultural criticism and environmental responsibilities  www.ettoregiordano.com

Caterina Salito. CEO/Co-Founder of Biocubica srl, PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University.

Dario Bovio. CTO/Co-Founder of Biocubica srl, Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University.

Barbara Uva. CTO/Co-Founder of Biocubica srl, PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University.

Biocubica is an innovative startup which provides innovative solutions, consulting services and support for the development of embedded systems in the field of biomedical technology www.biocubica.it

How Will You Ship?

When the campaign closes, we will send you an email with a link to a system that will help you manage your perk and input your shipping information.

What Kind Of Warranty Will You Offer For iHearty?

We offer one year replacement for any damages to internal parts or batteries, and all you need to pay for is shipping.

How Do I Get The App?

iHearty works with the companion iHearty app, which is compatible with iOS 7.0 or later and Android. iHearty app will be available for free at the app store.

Battery & Charging

iHearty  is equipped with a long lasting lithium battery (about 20 hours) but we are still working on perfecting our charging solution.

How Is iHearty Different From The Other Cover?

iHearty is more than a simple cover, iHearty is something special. It was designed to have an open protocol of communication so you can build your own app. 

iHearty with its elegant design is able to monitor the status of illines yours and of the environment around you. It is the first case able to acquire physiological signal of significant importance for your physician. We look forward to the innovations and optimizations that come from an open API platform.