ATLAS Resonate App
and Online Tool
for safe listening

Safe listening times can be surprisingly low for some everyday sounds

Safe Listen Times

The whole day

Normal talk (~70 dB)

6 hr - 10 min

Headphones, Traffic, Lawn mower, Tractor, Motorcycle, Movies, Concerts, Sports (80-110 dB)

2 min

Ambulance, Sirens (110-129 dB)

1-0 min

Fireworks, Jet taking off (130-160 dB)

Thus there are Safe Listen Standards to protect from unsafe noise

Environment

CDC-NIOSH: REL

OSHA: PEL

Headphones

WHO-ITU H.870

Military

ARL, APHL, DoD-HCE

WHO: World Health Organization

ITU: International Telecommunuications Union

CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

NIOSH: Natitonal Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration

ARL: Army research Labs

APHL: Army Public Health Center

Dod-HCE: Dept.of Defense - Hearing Center of Excellence

ATLAS Resonate App

Provides instant environmental and headphone noise exposures vs. daily and weekly safe listen dose

per the Standards

Online Tool

Provides App onboarding, hearing essentials, self-check and self-care information

Customized to (1) 12-17 years and (2) !8 years and older

Sound exposure, measured as decibels (dB), has a nonlinear relationship with safe exposure duration

While less than 85 dB over 8 hours/day is generally considered as safe, it takes a series of computations to determine the decrease in safe times above the level

The App computes and reports safe listen times based on dB and exposure duration

Use of the App and the Tools, as part of your healthy lifestyle, helps you make decisions for reducing exposure to potentially harmful noise levels and duration*

*Harmful noise levels and long exposure duration can cause Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)

Monitor your listening

Use your phone microphone to measure environmental dB

Get your headphone dB automatically when you connect your headphones

The App automatically calculates safe times at that dB + your exposure vs standardized safe dose

Do a spot-check or log your exposure duration

See your daily/weekly history - environmental, headphone and combined

Make safe listening choices

Get color-coded outcomes of your daily and weekly exposures

Check your personal dashboard on your last logged measurement

Get tips on safe listening and App use

Get reminders to check your exposure

Get Online Tools for your listening lifestyle

Customized for adults and older kids*

Onboarding, Privacy, Cybersecurity information

Know your hearing essentials

Check your listening profile

Use tools for your personal care habits

*Discuss with adult prior to use

Regulatory interactions, Publications and Patent

FDA: Q-Submission presentation; assessed to be a Wellness Device

UN-ITU: Presentation at ITU Kaleidoscope, 2019

Integrating User Voice in Hearing Care with Focus on Off-Duty Warfighter Military Medicine 2021

Global Safe Listening Solution. Pitch Finalist. ITU Digital World 2020

Development of Hearing Technology with Personalized Safe Listening Features. IEEE, 2019

Development of Hearing Technology with Safe Listening Features (Young Author Award). ITU Kaleidoscope, 2019

Integrating User Voice in Hearing Care with Focus on Young Adult Warfighter (poster). Military Health System Research Symposium. 2019.

International Patent System PCT: Method for safe listening and user engagement

Easy to use App features

Use directions and user support

Banner notifications without need to open App

Battery use minimization by unique sampling technique

Safe exposure computations follow regulatory standards

For Environmental sound: US OSHA - Permissible Exposure Level

For Headphone sound: WHO-ITU H.870 global standard for safe listening devices/systems

Both standards address noise limits from CDC-NIOSH and Military

Information reliability: Verification and Validation of computations per FDA standards

Information safety: Privacy and Cybersecurity per FDA standards

App details presented to : FDA, ITU, Military

*REFERENCES:

CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

DoD-HCE: Dept. of Defense-Military Hearing Center of Excellence

EPA: Environmental Protection Agency

NIDCD: National Inst. of Deafness and other Communication Disorders