Adaptive Personal Intelligence Systems

Technology

NerMI turns photoplethysmography and facial tracking into a real-time autonomic interface—tracking valence, motivation, and activation per heartbeat, on-device, without black-box models or cloud dependence.

NerMI Effect

NerMI Effect

What we aim to fix: mood detection and change in personality

NerMI Technology

Real-time Processing

Demonstration of the technology where NerMI will be deployed.

Sampling

Per heartbeat

Continuous emotional dynamics

Autonomic branches

PNS · α-SNS · β-SNS

Three-dimensional emotion

Hardware

Standard PPG

Research & consumer devices

Real-time emotion

Personality over time

Lawful physiology

Core framework

On-device

C-optimized · Cloud-optional

Three dimensions, three autonomic branches.

NerMI decomposes the PPG signal into lawful physiological components, mapping directly onto parasympathetic, α-sympathetic, and β-sympathetic activity—no guessing, no generic "stress scores."

Single PPG input → multi-dimensional output

Dimension I: Valence

Parasympathetic (PNS)

Tracks comfort vs. discomfort through vagal-linked patterns in low-frequency PPG dynamics, acting as a continuous "pleasantness" signal rather than post-hoc sentiment.

Aligned to EMG (zygomaticus–corrugator)
Seconds → weeks

Dimension II: Motivation

α-Sympathetic (α-SNS)

Captures approach-vs-avoidance by extracting mid-frequency oscillations tied to effort, readiness, and behavioral drive—what moves a person toward or away from goals.

Persistent baseline activation
Minutes → weeks

Dimension III: Activation

β-Sympathetic (β-SNS)

Measures autonomic arousal from heart-rate variability in the ultra-high-frequency band, marking the body's readiness for action—whether excited or stressed.

Short-term autonomic bursts
Seconds → hours

One measurement layer across timescales.

An extended Kalman filter tracks band-limited oscillations in vascular and cardiac changes are integrated with continuous heart rate variability, enabling emotion, state, and trait inference using the same model.

On-device · C-optimized · Cloud-optional

Real-time dynamics

NerMI converts standard PPG into a continuous map of autonomic behavior.

Seconds

Emotion: heartbeat-level updates in Valence, Motivation, and Activation for moment-to-moment changes.

Minutes–hours

States: work sessions, interactions, recovery windows, and sleep stages become structured patterns.

Days–weeks

Traits: repeated behavioral signatures stabilize into temperament and personality profiles.

Why it works when black boxes don't

Instead of throwing data at a deep net, NerMI encodes the physiology directly. That keeps the logic visible and the computation light.

Lawful physiology

Each dimension maps to a known autonomic mechanism, not a hidden layer.

Transparent math

EKF frequency decomposition, heart rate variability, and regression models can be inspected, audited, and replicated.

Hardware-agnostic

If a device exposes PPG with IBI and pulse volume, NerMI can run on it.

Predictable cost

Designed for constrained wearables, not server farms.

Use Cases

Personal intelligence

Long-term emotional signatures roll up into personality estimates, without questionnaires.

Health & fatigue

Detect overload, chronic strain, and recovery quality from the same stream used for heart rate.

Human–AI coaching

Interfaces that respond to how a person is actually doing, not just what they click.

Research & clinics

Bring quantitative emotion and personality into lab, clinic, and field studies with one pipeline.