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## Cionic Research Kit

The Cionic Research Kit provides end-to-end support for your human mobility research.

Our research tools enable your research group to conduct multiple simultaneous studies inside or outside the lab setting.

### Research Tools

The Cionic Research Kit is a robust set of tools for data collection and analysis. We leverage the latest data science technology and can provide integrations with most open source frameworks.

- **Cionic Research Hardware** - Our hardware gives you fine-grained control over your data collection.
- **Cionic Collection Apps** - Our mobile applications offer the flexibility to perform your research in any environment and to customize your participant experience.
- **Cionic Research Portal** - Our web portal gives you all the tools you need for study management and data collection protocol definition, participant intake and anonymization, and data management and analysis.
- **Remote Data Collection** - Expand your potential participant population by eliminating colocation requirements. Remotely view live data streams and operate CIONIC's on-body hardware while simultaneously interacting with participants anywhere in the world.
- **Cionic Protocol Builder** - Use our predefined data capture protocols and visualizations or build your own custom interface.
- **Jupyter Analysis Environment** - We provide a hosted JupyterLab environment with Python data science libraries and CIONIC's standard analysis notebooks pre-installed.
- **Automated Analysis and Reporting** - Use CIONIC's pre-built motion, gait, and cycling reports or build your own to run automatically on each dataset to accelerate your research results.
- **BYO Data and Tools** - CIONIC provides SDKs and REST APIs that allow you to incorporate external data into your studies as well as bring data collected on our platform into your own analysis environments.

### Technical Specifications

The Cionic Research Kit includes:
- IMU kinematics up to 400 Hz
- sEMG muscle firing up to 4 kHz
- Electrical stimulation (currently in development)
- iOS and Android data collection apps
- Research web portal for study management
- HIPAA-compliant patient management and data infrastructure

### Intended Audience

At Cionic, we believe in collaboration and want to support your efforts to understand and improve human motion.

- **Academic Institutions** - Our platform is currently used in IRB-approved studies; we understand the need for rigor with research and academic publications.
- **Clinical and Healthcare** - CIONIC's platform is HIPAA compliant; we prioritize patient security, privacy, and trust, so you can improve your level of care.
- **Private/Corporate Partnerships** - Our platform is extensible and integration is easy; we want to help you extend your product offering and make your solution available on our platform.

We currently have a limited number of research kits available. Tell us about your inspiring research and how our tools can help reach your goals.
