BRAVO Wearable App

The Brain Recording Analysis and Visualization Online Platform Companion Mobile Application

The BRAVO Wearable Application is a supplementary mobile application designed to complement the Brain Recording Analysis and Visualization Online (BRAVO) Platform developed by researchers at Fixel Institutes for Neurological Diseases at University of Florida. The application is focusing on managing inertia sensor recordings collected using different wearable sensors, with list of supporting sensors at the end of the app description.

The application is designed as a supplementary tool to the research-focused BRAVO Platform, and usage of the application is only approved upon consenting to research studies. If researchers intend to use this application to collect Apple's Movement Disorder Kit recordings or motion data available on the application, you must consent study participants for your study complying to your local institute's Institutional Review Board requirements. This application allows study participants who consented in various research studies to perform motion sensor data collection for weeks in between clinic visits. Data can be shared to researchers by users if they consent to the researchers' studies. These data will allow healthcare providers and researchers gaining additional insight about the study participants' symptoms in various treatment paradigms or other interventions comparisons. If you intend to use this mobile application for your research, please contact us via official Github Repository for BRAVO Platform.

The application, as a companion app to the BRAVO Platform, contains basic capabilities offered by the Web-version, such as for user to submit customized surveys or to visualize neuronal models that clinicians or researchers shared with the user. Users can use this application as a simple motion recording software to collect their own motion data using Apple Watches or MBIENTLAB sensor if they are enrolled in a research study that requested objective inertia sensor data. This application allows users to collect data without any PHI stored in the mobile device. There will not be data sharing from the app to 3rd party company. All data are managed and owned by the user until uploading or downloading to their phone storage. All data are available to the user without paywall, contracts, or marketing agreements.

Permission Requested:

1. Wi-Fi is required for account authentication. Local Network Access may be requested if your local BRAVO Database is hosted in Internal Network.
2. Bluetooth Low Energy is required for communication with MBIENTLAB sensors for wearable sensor data collection.
3. Accelerometer Permission is required to use the Apple Watch component for Apple's Movement Disorder Kit sensor collection
4. HealthKit Query is required for collecting Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Sleep State data.
5. Internet Connectivity is required for requesting Brain Models for visualization and submit customized Survey through mobile app.

Sensor Supported: MBIENTLAB MetaMotion S+ Sensor Apple Watch Series 3 or Newer (with Movement Disorder Kit for Parkinson's Disease Symptom Measurement)