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Product Overview
The Wearables Research and Analytics Platform (WRAP®) is an RTI-owned platform that enables automated collection, monitoring, and analysis of physiological metrics from consumer and research wearable devices. The WRAP ecosystem provides a feature-rich web dashboard to empower users with large-scale sensor data collection and real-time insights for a privacy-centric approach to health studies.
Designed for research teams running wearable-based studies, WRAP supports participant management, device provisioning, realtime compliance monitoring, secure deidentified data storage, flexible exports, and a Streaming API for realtime analytics and closedloop interventions.
The Story Behind the Solution
Consumer wearables promise rich, continuous measures of sleep, heart rate, activity, and stress—but in practice researchers ran into two persistent barriers. Study teams lacked the infrastructure and expertise to integrate diverse devices into robust workflows, and data was collected in many vendor‑specific, nonstandard formats that were hard to manage and analyze at scale. Studies also demanded secure, auditable consent, scalable onboarding, and real‑time compliance tracking that off‑the‑shelf tools did not address. WRAP® was built by RTI to solve these gaps with an end‑to‑end, research‑first platform.
Why Use This Product
WRAP provides an end-to-end workflow for wearable research — from study setup and device deployment through ongoing monitoring and final data export. Study teams use the WRAP web dashboard to enroll participants, configure data collection windows and quality thresholds, provision devices, and monitor compliance across cohorts.
This platform emphasizes reproducibility, data quality, and participant privacy. Data are streamed and stored in deidentified form, and dashboard tools provide data‑quality scores and compliance alerts so study staff can intervene quickly. WRAP’s export and API capabilities let data scientists extract raw or processed sensor streams for custom analyses, and the platform can be extended to support just‑in‑time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) and closed‑loop research workflows.
- Integrations: Works with popular wearables such as Garmin, Fitbit, Oura, Withings, Apple.
- Continuous data streaming: Capture heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), step cadence, and sleep metrics with near real‑time updates.
- Real‑time compliance: Live dashboards and compliance scores help study staff identify and support participants who are not streaming data.
- Privacy‑first: No PII or PHI is stored, participants are deidentified, and GPS or IP location data is not collected or retained.
- Flexible exports & API: Download and export study or participant data with the ability to stream data to third‑party servers using WRAP’s Streaming API.
Features
- Study design & management: Create multiple studies, assign roles and permissions, set protocols, and manage enrollment.
- Real‑time monitoring & compliance: Live participant dashboards, compliance indicators, and data quality scoring to minimize missing or low‑quality data.
- Biometric data capture: Continuous heart rate and HRV, step counts, sleep staging summaries and timestamps, and event‑level streaming where available.
- Customizable thresholds: Set personalized thresholds for your data to be notified when data deviates from expectations.
- Configurable with RTI StudySense™: Integrate device pairing, survey delivery, participant push notifications, and reminders to improve adherence.
- Data exports & API: Download full study or individual participant exports and stream incoming data to third‑party systems through the WRAP Streaming API.
- Privacy & access controls: Deidentified participant IDs, authentication for study teams, and controlled guest access procedures.
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