iFertracker- First Overnight Basal Body Temperature tracker to monitor the fertility

iFertracker™ by Raaing Medical is the first overnight fertility monitor that measures the core body temperature continuously throughout the night. It also simultaneously calculates and record the Basal Body Temperature (BBT) to predict the fertile window.

Usually, to measure the BBT a woman must use a special thermometer to record the temperature early morning each day at the same time before she gets out of bed. This task itself is tiresome and unreliable, sometimes a day is missed, or some error might occur.

iFertracker eliminates all this hassle and does all the work while the woman can sleep soundly throughout the night. It comes in beautifully packaged, with two CR2025 batteries (each battery is predicted to last for 45-60 days so the other is kept as spare one), a battery replacement tool, and 150 double-sided, single-use adhesive patches.

Setting up the iFertracker before the woman can start measuring the temperature is a very easy task. The woman has to simply download the free app to an Android or iOS cell phone and input all her menstrual cycle details along with her biometrics.

The device itself is very small and lightweight and has a very sleek, oblong design. It powers on automatically as soon as it comes in contact with body heat and a small blue light starts flashing indicating that Bluetooth capabilities are enabled. After once connected the iFertracker will recognize the user’s cell phone and will connect with it every time the app is opened.

To begin using, the woman places a new, double-sided adhesive patch on the oblong wearable thermometer and adhere it to the armpit. It is advisable to shave the area before putting on the device. The device turns on by itself and collects 20,000 data points in a single night, continuously monitoring the temperature as the user sleeps through the night. These are eventually uploaded to cloud and analyzed by an advanced algorithm to calculate the BBT.

The next morning, she removes the device and goes around with her morning routine. At her convenience, she opens the app on her smartphone and the device sync to it and starts downloading the temperature readings collected overnight.

In an event that internet connectivity is lost, or the user is very busy to open the app, the device has the ability to store data up to 10 days and it syncs with the app as soon as it is opened.

The iFertracker app displays the information collected in the form of graphs that are user-friendly and easy to understand. The graph color codes each phase of the cycle, including Menstruation, Follicular & Luteal phases, Fertile Window, and Ovulation day.

In addition to the display of last night’s BBT, the home screen informs the user about her fertility possibility and days until ovulation. The app also allows the user to input relevant event such as cervical mucus, mood, sexual activity, etc. The accuracy of prediction increase linearly with the duration of use as the tracker collects data over time and harness it to predict the fertility window and day of ovulation.

Besides getting pregnant this information can be used for natural family planning, hormone tracking during pregnancy or return to full fertility after delivery.

Raiing Medical also manufacture iThermonitor ™, the only wearable, wireless, clinically validated, and non-invasive core temperature thermometer.  It is worn similar to iFertracker and can be used in children and adults.

The iFertracker is available on Amazon or directly from Raiing Medical for $109. The adhesive patches are also available separately. 

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Here is a video about how to track your BBT using iFertracker

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A revolutionary personal fertility sensor that sends you a message- “You are about to ovulate”

A Medical Device Premier Innovation summit was held recently at Minneapolis, MN by MedTech Strategist in association with The Medical Alley Association. About more than 40 start-up and emerging medical companies presented their technologies and devices at the summit.

Among the display was “Priya”, a vaginal temperature sensor that is being developed to wirelessly capture your continuous core temperature to detect the subtle changes that occur PRIOR to ovulation. 

Priya is developed by Prima-Temp, a medical device and technology  company situated in Boulder, CO, USA.

Priya is currently undergoing clinical trials, the intravaginal ring directly sends the temperature data to Priya App on the patients’ smartphone. When the subtle fall in temperature before ovulation is detected, the smartphone alerts the women.

Priya is an intravaginal ring made from medical-grade silicone form-factor and have a wireless continuous temperature sensor inserted within it. It’s dimensions and flexibility are similar to Estring®. Women are using these contraceptive vaginal rings or estrogen containing rings since may years. Prima-Temp just replaced the medications with a very sensitive sensor that measures core body temperature. Currently an algorithm is being tested to detect the DIP in temperature prior to ovulation.

This device has no extra monitor, urine strips or other extra parts that needs to be attached or monitored. The patient only needs to pair the ring with the app on the smartphone and insert the ring in the vagina.

Unlike the Basal Body Temperature (BBT), Priya monitors the internal core temperature continuously, which has been shown to more precise than oral or skin temperature. Based on this continuous core monitoring, the algorithms developed for Priya have been shown to achieve a 99% sensitivity for detection of ovulation, with a 99% percent accuracy in clinical trials.

Women’s body shows a striking diurnal variation and exhibit a pattern that is has been established as highly reliable marker for circadian rhythm. This pattern shows a distinct dip in body temperature 48- hours period prior to ovulation which is detected by the continuous monitoring by the ring sensors.

Meet Ava: The First Fertility Tracking Sensor Bracelet

Ava Bracelet 

Ava is the first fertility tracking device that is worn in the nighttime like a bracelet around wrist. It is accurate to narrow the fertility window to 5.3 days in a menstrual cycle .

It works by monitoring 9 physiological parameters that are in relation with the changing reproductive hormone levels. The data is gathered through night and it is fed into an algorithm. It does not rely on patient to input the data.

It measures pulse rate, breathing rate, heart rate variability, sleep duration and sleep phases, movement, skin temperature, heat loss, perfusion, and bio impedance.

Sync the data in the morning with the Ava app displays the information through several graphs along with a timeline of the cycle, which depicts the fertile window with 89% accuracy.

It saves the patient from taking the Basal Body Temperature (BBT), checking the quality of cervical mucus or doing the urine test for ovulation.

The accuracy improves with longer period of wearing the bracelet.

It is FDA registered and CE approved, based on a yearlong study at the University Hospital of Zurich led by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Leeners, who is known as an expert of mathematical modeling of menstrual cycles.

Ava is specially indicated in patients who have irregular cycles, couples who want to have timed intercourse and patients taking treatment for anovulatory infertility.  

If you get pregnant, the Ava bracelet will track you other parameters like sleep quality, resting heart rate, and stress levels.

Ava is a medical technology company founded in Switzerland in 2014 by data scientists, experts in wearable technology, and women’s health researchers bringing innovation to women’s reproductive health.

Ava is the first easy and accurate method for women to track their fertile days and ovulation,” Ava founder & CEO Lea von Bidder said. “Only worn during the night, the Ava bracelet uses completely novel technology to detect the very beginning of a woman’s fertile window. Ava is registered with the FDA as a medical class one device and has proven to be 89% accurate to detect 5.3 fertile days in a woman’s menstrual cycle.”

Ava is currently priced at Ava's £199, €249 and $199. It can be ordered here.

Ava is also the recipient of Best of Baby Tech Award  in fertility category at the world's largest consumer electronics show 2017(CES) at Las Vegas.  

The company is currently recruiting patients for further clinical studies. 

Here is a video on how Ava will detect  your fertility window.