NATIONAL INNOFINLAND PRIZE 2004

FIRSTBEAT TECHNOLOGIES OY, JYVÄSKYLÄ

Heart Beat Analysis Technology

Firstbeat Technologies Oy has developed a revolutionary heart beat analysis technology. By analysing measured intervals between heart beats, the company can produce exact and comprehensive data concerning human body functions and how the manner of living affects health. The technology provides precise information on how exercise affects the body. It also supports weight management and identifies work load, recovery and health-threatening stress. The basis for the innovation is to identify traces left by body functions in the heart beat, after which it is possible to simulate a digital model of the measured person’s body functions. The technology can be used in various ways in devices measuring users. Suunto t6 wrist computers are the first consumer products using this technology.

The company’s software to analyse well-being facilitates the choosing of right manners of living in exercise and weight and stress management. In preventive health care, the method enables effective service models that pay attention to individuals. The analysis of how the manner of living affects health is suitable for programmes furthering well-being at work for establishing the initial situation and determining the effects of steps taken. When health hazards related to the manner of living are discovered at an early stage, it is possible, by taking the right steps, to avoid working ability being reduced later on.

Firstbeat Technologies Oy was established in 2002 and has a staff of 14. The company’s target is to make its analysis technology widely used.

Firstbeat Technologies Oy
CEO Joni Kettunen
Rautpohjankatu 6, FI-40700 Jyväskylä
Phone +358 (0)50 3240 889, +358 (0)14 213 354, fax +358 (0)14 260 3171
joni.kettunen@firstbeattechnologies.com
www.firstbeattechnologies.com