Israeli software company NeuroBrave tracks variations in heartbeat through smartwatch technology to alert the wearer of their stress levels.
By Shula Rosen
Emotional upset can often begin before we even notice it and can start literally in a heartbeat.
Israeli software company NeuroBrave tracks variations in a heartbeat through smartwatch technology to alert the wearer before they notice the stress or even fly off the handle.
NeuroBrave co-founder and CEO Dror Talisman explains that the smartwatch software uses AI analytics to process data gathered from photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensors.
“It’s a very simple, but very clever sensor,” Talisman told No Camels.
These sensors can also determine heart rate variability (HRV) variations, indicating emotional responses and overall physical health.
HRV is an indicator of the health of both the autonomic nervous system, which contains the sympathetic nervous system, which controls our fight-or-flight responses, and the parasympathetic nervous system, which governs the body’s relaxation responses.
Talisman explains, “Through the HRV, we run our AI and statistics [analysis],” he says. “And we provide, for example, emotional stress levels, which is crucial to understanding chronic stress and anxiety and a lot of the mental health issues that we have today.”
Those concerned about data privacy can rest assured that NeuroBrave’s data is for one-time use and is not saved or shared.
Talisman noted that once the data has been analyzed, it “just goes away.”
NeuroBrave’s software is available in the US, Japan and Europe.
Although the technology was developed in Israel, Talisman explains that Israel is too small a country to provide the size of the market the company needs.
However, NeuroBrave has provided its software to residents of 12 communities in the Negev, Israeli first responders, security officials, and others who have been affected by the stress of war.
“We said, ‘Let’s do something for Israel, for the people around us’,” Talisman says.
“Mental health is aching for a solution,” he says. “There aren’t enough therapists, and you cannot just multiply them.”