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Zin Technologies

ZIN Technologies provides integrated products and spaceflight hardware development services to NASA and Fortune 500 companies. ZIN-Tech, with its uniquely qualified staff, and a proven track record of award winning work, delivers product development, system prototypes, and space flight hardware on time and under budget. The company develops specialized data acquisition and control systems, power converters, and optical-mechanical systems for aerospace and commercial applications.

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    00:00:03 we all want to be healthy we know exercise and regular checkups help but what if you were somewhere very remote say out in space how would you exercise and monitor your health researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center are tackling those issues we focus on exercise device development as well as exercise protocol development and both of those are focused on enhancing health

    00:00:27 of the crew uh when they're in space flight do the the small business Innovation research or sbir program The Glenn Engineers team with Zen Technologies a small firm in Cleveland Ohio to develop Health rated Technologies a lot of the work that we do currently is focused on more near-term needs and we are not looking at some of the advanced concepts that

    00:00:47 the SB program gives us an opportunity to look at Glenn and Zin have partnered with researchers at the Cleveland Clinic to develop a biomedical device for monitoring the astronaut's Health it's called biowatch we decided that it really was time to make a smaller version and a smarter version of an ambulatory data collection system it's smart in two ways it's smart because it

    00:01:12 can do some local computation and it's also smart because it can communicate we are working with uh Johnson right now potentially that it could be incorporated into the new uh astronaut space suits so that we can monitor their Vital Signs uh utilizing the biowatch technology uh and then those Vital Signs will be uh real time transferred down to uh to Earth Zen is also commercializing

    00:01:37 the space technology for use here on Earth it relieves some of the pressure from uh patients having coming back to the hospital uh frequently to have their Vital Signs monitor it be done at home and the signal can be sent wirelessly real time back to the clinic the doctor will be able to know what the patient did that day and know whether their progress in their postsurgical

    00:01:59 rehabilitation is going well not by seeing the patient just by checking the medical record because the data has come from the patient uh through the device into the medical record because of bone loss and microgravity it's critical for astronauts on board the space station to exercise but without gravity the exercise isn't weightbearing something important for good muscular skeletal

    00:02:21 Health through another sbir contract Zen is working on a passive pneumatic subject load device for Glenn's ezls treadmill the device would maintain a person's weight in a micro gravity environment one of the things that came out of that sbir Phase 1 was this technology could actually be infused into our program much much sooner uh than we had anticipated and actually

    00:02:43 fills a current Gap in the program uh for the International Space Station and so the program has provided additional funding uh to augment The sbir Phase 2 funding to actually get us closer to a hardware development that we actually will fly on the uh International Space Station as a part of the second treadmill whether we're here on Earth or out in space having good health is

    00:03:06 important for all of us