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01 / FounderSunna
Chief Executive Officer
Background in enterprise AI, healthcare transformation, and commercialization at ServiceNow.
- Company strategy
- Commercialization
- Fundraising
- Partnerships
- Product vision
- Go-to-market
SONA / Research Laboratory for Autonomous Medical Devices
Building autonomous healthcare.
We develop systems that continuously sense, understand, and respond to human physiology.
Boston, MassachusettsProduct 01 — Aurora / in development
01 / The problem
Your health is continuous.
Your care should be too.
Most healthcare decisions rely on isolated measurements taken during appointments and what patients can remember between them. SONA is building systems designed to understand what happens in between.
Traditional healthcare
Doctor visit
Weeks of missing information
Doctor visit
Months of missing information
Emergency
SONA
Continuous sensing
Multimodal signals captured passively, 24/7.
Longitudinal baseline
An individualized model of normal is formed over time.
Deviation detected
Current physiology is compared against that baseline.
Understanding
Context is applied before anything is escalated.
Appropriate response
The right person is informed at the right moment.
Product 01
Aurora
A continuous window into human physiology. Aurora is a non-contact health monitoring and response system designed for homes and healthcare environments. It combines multimodal sensing and artificial intelligence to build an individualized understanding of health over time.
Aurora / sensing architecture — conceptualOptical
Remote physiological measurement and visual sensing.
Aurora is under development. Described capabilities are design intent and active research, not validated clinical claims.
02 / Longitudinal health
Not another snapshot.
A history of you.
Aurora is designed to learn what normal looks like for each individual rather than relying only on population averages.
Longitudinal model — conceptual demonstration data
T0Month 6
Signal
Readout
64bpm
Model state
Baseline band narrows around the individual.
Event
Baseline deviation
Multimodal fusion
03 / Emergency awareness
When something changes, time matters.
Aurora is being developed to recognize patterns that may indicate an urgent event and escalate accordingly.
Patterns under research
- Fall detected
- Prolonged immobility
- Significant respiratory abnormality
- Loss of consciousness pattern
- Major physiological deviation
Possible recipients
- Individual
- Family member
- Caregiver
- Clinician
- Emergency contact
04 / Closed loop
Monitoring is only the beginning.
We are researching systems that can move from sensing physiology to responding to it.
Frequency-based stimulation research
SONA is researching whether precisely controlled acoustic or vibroacoustic stimulation can produce reproducible changes in measurable physiological states.
Aurora's research architecture is designed to control frequency, waveform, amplitude, duration, and delivery method while continuously measuring the physiological response.
Conceptual research visualization — not clinical output
Controlled stimulus
Measured physiological response
6 rel.
50 %
40 %
Research capability. Clinical applications subject to validation and regulatory requirements.
05 / The SONA research model
Research is not a department.
It is the company.
Most companies conduct research to build a product. SONA is building a permanent research institution where scientific discovery continuously produces the next generation of medical technology.
ResearchScientific discoveryTechnologyProductReal-world deploymentNew questions + dataSONA
research loop
research loop
Research areas
- R01
Physiological sensing
- R02
Biomedical signal processing
- R03
Multimodal sensing
- R04
Biomedical instrumentation
- R05
Machine learning
- R06
Personalized physiological models
- R07
Non-contact monitoring
- R08
Closed-loop systems
- R09
Human-machine interfaces
- R10
Intervention technologies
06 / From research to products
One scientific capability.
Many possible products.
Aurora is Product 01. The underlying research platform is designed to support an expanding family of autonomous medical technologies.
Foundational research
- Physiological sensing
- Signal processing
- Biomarkers
- AI models
- Intervention science
Product 01
Aurora
Ambient autonomous health system for homes and healthcare environments.
In development
Future devices
Under researchThe same research platform is designed to seed an expanding family of devices. Each candidate is in early exploration.
- D02Exploration
Ambient clinical monitor
- D03Exploration
Portable recovery sensor
- D04Concept
Wearable research unit
- D05Concept
Embedded sensing surface
07 / Applications
Designed for life beyond the clinic.
A01
Aging & senior care
Continuous visibility into changes that may otherwise go unnoticed.
A02
Post-discharge
Understanding recovery between hospital discharge and follow-up.
A03
Chronic care
Longitudinal insight into how physiology changes over time.
A04
Home health
A richer picture of health without requiring constant manual measurements.
Continuous ambient health monitoring in the home.
Simulated Aurora interface
Simulated dataStatusMonitoring
Personal baseline active
Last sensor fusion update: 1 sec ago
Heart rate
Baseline 60–76 BPM
68 BPM―
NORMAL
Respiratory rate
Baseline 12–16 / MIN
14 / MIN―
NORMAL
Sleep / rest state
Baseline 22:40–06:20
Resting―
NORMAL
Activity
Baseline Low at this hour
Low▼
NORMAL
Cough events
Baseline 0–5 / night
3 / night▲
OBSERVING
Room presence
Baseline Bedroom
Detected―
NORMAL
Personal baseline12–16 / min
Respiratory rate · current 14.0 / min
Within personal baseline
Aurora system state
Sense→Understand→Respond→Remeasure
Respond — continue monitoring
Conceptual demonstration data. Aurora is not a clinical device, is not commercially available, and does not provide diagnosis.
These applications describe intended use under development. Aurora is not commercially available.
08 / Research credibility
Built on years of biomedical research.
SONA's scientific foundation draws on 13+ years of biomedical engineering research led by Professor Posada-Quintero across physiological sensing, signal processing, instrumentation, wearables, machine learning, autonomic nervous system research, and multimodal physiological analysis.
- P-001Publication record pending verification
Electrodermal activity as an index of autonomic nervous system response
EDAPhysiological sensingSignal processing
- P-002Publication record pending verification
Photoplethysmography-derived indices for continuous physiological assessment
PPGSignal processingWearables
- P-003Publication record pending verification
Machine learning approaches to multimodal physiological classification
Machine learningPhysiological sensing
- P-004Publication record pending verification
Instrumentation design for ambulatory biomedical measurement
Biomedical instrumentationWearables
- P-005Publication record pending verification
ECG-derived autonomic markers under sustained cognitive load
ECGSignal processingMachine learning
- P-006Publication record pending verification
Non-contact estimation of respiratory dynamics
Physiological sensingSignal processing
Google Scholar — link pendingPubMed — link pendingIEEE Xplore — link pendingResearchGate — link pending
09 / The team
Science. Engineering. Commercialization.
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02 / FounderProfessor Posada-Quintero
Chief Scientific Officer
13+ years of biomedical engineering research underlying SONA's scientific foundation.
- Biomedical research
- Physiological sensing
- Signal processing
- Biomedical instrumentation
- Scientific validation
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03 / FounderBoluwatife
Chief Technology Officer
Engineer experienced in translating biomedical research into embedded and intelligent systems.
- Embedded systems
- Electronics
- Firmware
- Medical devices
- Machine learning
- Hardware development
- Healthcare was episodic.
- Then it became connected.
- Next it becomes continuous.
- Then predictive.
- And eventually autonomous.
SONA is building what comes next.
10 / Partnerships