Elata is a platform where anyone can build and use consumer-friendly, privacy-respecting biosensing, neuroscience, and cognitive-interfacing applications with ease.
Apps on Elata can use ordinary webcams and mobile device cameras for physiological and cognitive measurement, with optional consumer EEG devices and other compatible inputs. Our belief is that by harnessing such signals, we will be able to bring completely new possibilities to gaming, wellness and lifestyle, health tracking, and research applications.
Currently, our ecosystem is set up to bring builders a shared toolkit for signal integration, app hosting, local data storage, and in-app purchases to make it as easy as possible to turn an idea into an app that people can actually start using. At the core of this toolkit is Elata SDK, a fully open-source SDK delivered to builders through a set of npm packages.
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Applications and Experiences: Unifying EEG, wearables, remote physiological sensing, and other useful signals into canonical formats and SDKs so any device or app can plug into the same rails. Allows any compatible EEG headset, webcam, or wearable to connect, so hardware makers gain an immediate demand surface, and so consumers can begin getting data without needing a device at all if they please.
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Human-Centric AI & ML: Federated learning and AI for applications in bio-signal optimization, harness engineering, general health and wellness, and scientific data mining.
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Token Design: Staking, access-gating, commerce, capital raising, and governance to coordinate ecosystem rewards and ensure long-term alignment between participants.
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Developer Experience & Tooling: Provide third-party builders with SDKs, APIs, and other callable functions to launch applications without needing to rebuild wallets, compatibility, privacy, data pipelines and acquisition, or infrastructure.
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User Ownership, Safety, and Governance: Ensures users can best control how their brain data is used, benefit from better tools instead of data checks, and be well-represented in how the ecosystem evolves over time.
As an open-source project, Elata welcomes contributions from engineers, researchers, scientific talent, and designers. See our Contributing Guide to get started.
The highest value-adds for the time being include:
- Contributors for embedded and signal processing.
- ML researchers with EEG, neuroimaging, or psychiatric modeling experience.
- Biohackers, citizen scientists, and neurotech tinkerers.