# BandPass: A Remote Monitoring System for Sarcopenia and Functional Decline

> **NIH NIH R42** · SYNCHROHEALTH LLC · 2024 · $50,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Clinical Need: Sarcopenia and frailty represent significant and growing clinical challenges whose rates increase
with age, and place patients at risk for functional decline, institutionalization, or death. Resistance exercises are
strongly recommended in this age group to promote muscle regeneration and strength and are routinely a part
of evidence-based home exercise programs prescribed by physical therapists. If conducted as advised, patients
can recover from acute illness, preserve their independence, and reduce their risk of morbidity. Current Clinical
Challenge: A major gap in home exercise programs is a clinician's reliance on self-report diaries or verbal reports
that may be inaccurate or may be subject to recall bias. Remote patient monitoring systems that measure, track,
analyze, and provide patient-oriented feedback may overcome these limitations and have the potential to
enhance exercise adherence. An at-home device that monitors and transmits exercise data to the user and
clinician represents a potential solution to this clinical challenge. Our product – BandPass – SynchroHealth is
a small business entity that developed a remote monitoring solution to fulfil this market need. BandPass consists
of a remote-sensing, Bluetooth-enabled, resistance exercise band that will accurately gauge force through
potentiometric and multi-axial sensors, rigidly fixed to elastic-tubing purposely designed for resistance exercise
training. The device is visually similar to currently available exercise bands familiar to clinicians and patients.
However, the device has a significantly novel addition of integrating force monitoring while connecting to the
cloud through a patient app. A mobile app and a clinician cloud-based platform will provide computational
resources for data visualization, storage, and analysis. This will enable direct patient feedback, clinical monitoring
of patient compliance and progress, and will serve as a platform for more advanced operations such as automatic
exercise-type classification to ease user burden (e.g., minimizing required interactions between the user and
mobile device). Specific Objectives: We propose to commercialize the custom design electronics and housing
for BandPass and perform in-lab validation studies of device accuracy, precision, and long-term stability.
BandPass will be interfaced to a mobile app and cloud-based platform for its data transmission, storage, and
analysis. We will collect data on correct and incorrect usage of BandPass to drive classification algorithms that
will facilitate automatic guidance to patients in completing effective exercise programs. Then, we will conduct a
user-centered design study to examine how to communicate data to patients and clinicians. Finally, we will
deploy BandPass in a pilot study to show initial efficacy at home. Future Directions: SynchroHealth's vision is
to develop a mobile health, user-friendly platform using internet-connected devices to improve...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11099531
- **Project number:** 3R42AG071290-03S1
- **Recipient organization:** SYNCHROHEALTH LLC
- **Principal Investigator:** Ryan Joseph Halter
- **Activity code:** R42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $50,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-06-01 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11099531

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11099531, BandPass: A Remote Monitoring System for Sarcopenia and Functional Decline (3R42AG071290-03S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11099531. Licensed CC0.

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