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SMARTING User Manual 

– Release 11/03/2019

 

 

 

Figure 10.5 

Start window after running of 

OpenSesame

 application 

 

 

Figure 10.6 

Blank experiment 

10.2.1  Enabling UDP triggering 

 

 

Drag and drop inline script from 

Commonly used

 section in the 

menu in the left corner to the experiment in 

Overview

 menu. 

Summary of Contents for SMARTING 24

Page 1: ...User Manual...

Page 2: ...e impedance on ref box selected 16 6 4 Streaming signal with 500 Hz sampling frequency and the impedances switched on 18 6 5 Streaming signals with 500 Hz sampling frequency and with the impedance mea...

Page 3: ...r for OpenViBE 56 10 External triggering 60 10 1 Procedure for sending triggers from OpenSesame 63 10 3 Enabling UDP triggering 64 10 4 Setting up SMARTING Android and SMARTING Streamer for listening...

Page 4: ...injury or material damage if the instructions in this user manual are not properly followed Sign examples The triangle sign shows that you must be careful including dangers and warnings The explanati...

Page 5: ...in products are not designed for use in inflammable or explosive environments WARNING Do not connect your amplifier with the EEG cap when the amplifier is being charged via your PC or Tablet CAUTION I...

Page 6: ...according to IEC EN 60950 1 and comply with SELV requirements WARNING Electrical shock or Fire Hazard Do not try to charge your amplifier with anything else but the USB charger that you got with the d...

Page 7: ...unds USB Type C Charger L0 25m Mobile device with pre installed SMARTING application Documentation User Manual Warranty Card CE Certificate Declaration of Conformity Note the exact package content str...

Page 8: ...unipolar measurement Input impedance 500 M Input noise 1 V Input range 100 mV CMMR 110 dB Amplification 24 Gyroscope 3D built in AD Conversion Frequency 250Hz or 500 Hz Method Parallel sampling Resol...

Page 9: ...e battery Battery type Li Polymer 560 mAh 3 7 V Operational time 4 hours Connectors Electrode connectors Cristek IDC Dimensions Physical size of the box 82x51x12 mm Weight 60 g Manufacturer mBrainTrai...

Page 10: ...d pressure conditions The device must not be dropped since it may lead to malfunction 1 The USB Type C port is intended only for charging the battery marked by 1 in Figure 4 1 left SMARTING device is...

Page 11: ...1 pin for the ground electrode GND This EEG connector connects to an EEG cap of your choice We recommend using EEG caps made by EASYCAP 4 The blue LED light on Figure 4 1 marked by number 4 indicates...

Page 12: ...eil Bluetooth driver To do that visit the web page http www bluesoleil com products S0001201005190001 html and download the BlueSoleil 10 installation driver The installation file can also be found on...

Page 13: ...pdown menu After the device is paired click again the right mouse button and choose Connect Bluetooth serial Port COMxx Figure 5 4 The device icon will become green and the string appears connecting t...

Page 14: ...03 2019 11 Figure 5 3 Appearance of BlueSoleil Space application after finish of search for devices Figure 5 4 By right mouse clicking on the device one can recheck the Port number In this example the...

Page 15: ...to device Figure 5 6 Click the B sign to access BlueSoleil driver application Bluetooth Troubleshooting Problem Solution PC cannot see SMARTING Please check whether the battery is charged before tryi...

Page 16: ...llation To install the SMARTING streamer application please locate the installation file SmartingStreamer setup exe on the USB flash that was delivered inside the SMARTING package or download the Smar...

Page 17: ...e g Google Chrome Skype etc are switched off Start the Smarting Streamer by double clicking the icon on your desktop or in the Windows Start Menu The window shown in figure 6 2 will appear To success...

Page 18: ...device connects to the streamer by clicking the connect button 4 Once SMARTING is connected the white slider positioned in the upper left corner of the Streamer slides leftwards and the head silhouet...

Page 19: ...s are appearing and there are no lost data packages the connection quality is verified To stream the gyroscope data together with the EEG data check the Include gyro data box 10 To select the impedanc...

Page 20: ...number 14 in Figure 6 4 Once these two boxes are selected and the button start streaming signals number 16 in Figure 6 4 is clicked on the reference electrode will appear in the middle of the scalp sk...

Page 21: ...selected Once the signal streaming has started the main window looks like the one depicted in Figure 6 6 The electrode layout appears on the brain sketch in the bottom left panel of the streamer 17 Th...

Page 22: ...activated Figure 6 7 If the impedance measurements are selected the color coded impedance values may be observed on the left side of the Signal display window next to the electrode names 22 The red li...

Page 23: ...dvisable to switch off continuous impedance measurement before proceeding to data visualization and acquisition because this will reduce the high frequency noise components If the box No impedance mea...

Page 24: ...signal streaming is set to 500 Hz sampling frequency When visualizing the signals in the condition when impedances are switched off the Signal display window does not visualize the color codded impeda...

Page 25: ...the signal streaming with 250 Hz mode 15 in Figure 6 4 the electrode impedance measurement is not enabled i e if the box 15 is checked the Measure impedance 11 and Measure impedance on ref 12 options...

Page 26: ...Signal display window shows the raw EEG signals from each electrode that was selected in the main window The Signal display window allows visualizing the EEG also gyroscope signals in real time The re...

Page 27: ...ing the bandpass filter 0 1 40Hz However this function can be disabled and the raw signals can be visualized by clicking the filter off button 27 To observe the filtered data again click the same butt...

Page 28: ...ecording options more on the signals recording will be presented in the subsequent subchapter 6 8 The user can also stop the recording by clicking the same button 32 The time length of the recorded fi...

Page 29: ...the stream should be written in the Stream name text field 6 8 1 Using the XDF file format Once the field XDF file is checked annotation 35 in Figure 6 13 it is possible to choose from the list of av...

Page 30: ...ice to Smarting Streamer as described in Figure 6 3 As an example the EEG streams can be named EEG1 EEG2 etc as shown in Figure 6 14 In order to choose the location and the file name of the XDF file t...

Page 31: ...ordings as depicted in Figure 6 15 Figure 6 15 The choose storage folder window overview Once the recording folder is set provide the filename and save the path by clicking the Save button Figure 6 15...

Page 32: ...n if the same data is recorded in XDF and is generally supported by a larger number of post processing software as a traditional EEG file format The other steps are exactly the same as when recording...

Page 33: ...the device in idle mode 6 10 Software update Once the updated version of the streamer is available Smarting Streamer will notify the user If the new update contains major modification the update noti...

Page 34: ...e window will appear with the update notification 47 as shown in Figure 6 19 If the user clicks the update button 47 the Update Notification window Figure 6 18 will pop up again Figure 6 19 The Update...

Page 35: ...le options In case only a minor fix was made to the streamer the Update Notification window will not pop up during the streamer initialization phase However the update notification icon orange colored...

Page 36: ...ing SMARTING to record EEG signals Similarly one can record other physiological signals Note that the SMARTING amplifier is not compatible with other than passive type of recording sensors passive ele...

Page 37: ...plication 2 After connecting to the SMARTING device choose the appropriate layout as described in Chapter 6 1 shown in Figure 6 5 Choose impedance ranges for visualization of color indicators in the l...

Page 38: ...rder to avoid impedance measurements embedded in the data seen as a 125Hz noise a Stop the streaming b Choose no impedance measurements c Restart streaming Figure 7 4 The impedance values are shown ei...

Page 39: ...and verified by mBrainTrain Also SMARTING Android app performs the best on Android versions 7 1 2 and older The newest SMARTING Android software release can always be downloaded from http www mbraint...

Page 40: ...een will appear requesting to select the SMARTING device to connect to Figure 8 2 Note For the best performance we recommend that the smartphone is in the airplane mode but with enabled Bluetooth comm...

Page 41: ...in the device list press the button not this device A3 in Figure 8 3 which opens a Bluetooth window showing the list of paired devices Figure 8 4 Figure 8 4 The list of paired devices The list of ava...

Page 42: ...vice is paired click on a back button and when returned to the home screen the paired devices will appear in the choose device box A1 in Figure 8 2 Press the A1 button the device will connect to the s...

Page 43: ...o Disable or enable the impedances A5 o Enable or disable the test signal A6 o sampling frequency settings 500 or 250 Hz A7 Application settings o Impedance settings Modification of the color coded im...

Page 44: ...shown in Figure 8 8b a b Figure 8 8 Impedance settings window 8 3 2 Touchscreen marker settings In touch marker settings window the user can enable disable sound for touch markers A12 in Figure 8 9a F...

Page 45: ...e data in XDF or BDF file format A13 Figure 8 10 Figure 8 10 Recording settings window choosing the recording file format 8 3 3 1 Inclusion of Motion sensors into recording file Apart from choosing th...

Page 46: ...cordings made using the Mindfield Biosystems eSense Skin Response sensor More information on eSense Skin response sensor https www mindfield de en Biofeedback Products Mindfield C2 AE eSense Skin Resp...

Page 47: ...r b is wrongly positioned in the smartphone s audio jack 8 3 3 3 Embedding wireless triggers in EEG data SMARTING android application allows wireless triggering either over LSL or UDP protocol There a...

Page 48: ...is available and it can be enabled by selecting the wanted motion sensors Built in Gyroscope A23 Smartphone Accelerometers A24 and Smartphone GPS data A25 depicted in Figure 8 13 8 4 Main Window optio...

Page 49: ...er can add custom layouts by adding them in the root folder of the cellphone s internal memory Upon adding the new layouts they will appear in the drop down menu after pressing the button A30 Figure 8...

Page 50: ...hout color codes will appear in the main screen as in Figure 8 16 Figure 8 16 The electrode layouts can be chosen from the list of available layouts To name the file that is to be recorded click on th...

Page 51: ...visualize the signal press the button A34 Figure 8 17 and the Signal display window will appear Figure 8 17 Figure 8 18 Signal display window when the impedances are enabled The battery level of an a...

Page 52: ...channels at once In order to visualize the non visible channels slide vertically up or down The time scale is presented in the upper left corner of the Signal display window A38 Figure 8 18 The time c...

Page 53: ...ppears In the recording preview window one can check the filename sampling frequency number of channels whether motion data other sensors and or events will be included in the recording The recording...

Page 54: ...18 and signal recording will cease When the recording is stopped an experiment summary window pops up Figure 8 23 showing the following information about completed recording filename sampling frequenc...

Page 55: ...xperiments can be written in both available file formats BDF and XDF In order to send the markers over the UDP protocol enable sending the events over UDP protocol in the recording settings page as ex...

Page 56: ...e presentation in the recording settings window as explained in the Section 8 3 3 3 Next step is to enter the Presentation application and select the desired experiment from the experiment list Figure...

Page 57: ...urn to the Presentation application and run the experiment Upon experiment completion return to the SMARTING application and cease the recording the information about recorded events will be presented...

Page 58: ...SMARTING User Manual Release 11 03 2019 55 Figure 8 26 Disconnect the device window...

Page 59: ...e and real time neuroscience experiments and can be freely downloaded from http openvibe inria fr We also provide an installer application on the USB stick that comes with the SMARTING package To inst...

Page 60: ...SMARTING User Manual Release 11 03 2019 57 Figure 9 2 Click the I Agree button to agree with the open source license Figure 9 3 Click the Next button to proceed with the installation...

Page 61: ...er Manual Release 11 03 2019 Figure 9 4 Wait until the installation is finished Figure 9 5 Close installation window by clicking the Finish button The OpenViBE driver is now located at C Program Files...

Page 62: ...tton Figure 9 6 Input the correct COM port number in the Port Number text box Figure 9 7 appropriate COM port can be detected as described in Figure 5 4 It is important to note that after the port num...

Page 63: ...sending triggers from Neurobs Presentation Presentation is renowned stimulus delivery and experiment control program for neuroscience research https www neurobs com presentation Presentation supports...

Page 64: ...ox Figure 10 2 Presentation LSL data port window The LSL stream name and string marker content can be defined here Once the LSL data port settings have been completed in the main window the LSL Proper...

Page 65: ...window In order to create the mobile experiment and use the smartphone as the presentation device the secure package should be created and uploaded on the Neurobs presentation website Latter the secu...

Page 66: ...basic scripting procedure for sending the triggers over the UDP port includes following steps creating blank script enabling the UDP server sending a trigger and a stimulus closing UDP server respect...

Page 67: ...igure 10 5 Start window after running of OpenSesame application Figure 10 6 Blank experiment 10 2 1 Enabling UDP triggering Drag and drop inline script from Commonly used section in the menu in the le...

Page 68: ...global socket port 40007 A predefined port that matches the SMARTING client print Opening socket socket socket socket socket AF_INET socket SOCK_DGRAM print Server is started To send the triggers that...

Page 69: ...Figure 10 8 UDP Server configurations Run section To close UDP setup drag and drop new inline script after udpserver script Rename it to closeudp and copy following text in Run section Figure 10 9 so...

Page 70: ...nd Click on file Browse and choose the wav or ogg file from file pool that appears If there are no sounds inside the pool insert a sound by dragging and dropping a file from your PC to the file pool F...

Page 71: ...lease 11 03 2019 Figure 10 11 Choosing sounds for the events from file pool Go to your folder drag and drop files from folder to the file pool and select desired sound Figure 10 12 Sending trigger acc...

Page 72: ...e To start the recording turn on saving data to BDF file by clicking on record button in Signal display window Figure 6 7 and Figure 8 18 After that application is automatically listening to UDP port...

Page 73: ...ese electrodes should not come into direct contact with metals in order to avoid corrosion It is extremely necessary to clean the electrodes immediately after the measurements are performed and then l...

Page 74: ...rrangement Sheet shows the connection between pin inputs and how they are presented within the software Please check the Pin Arrangement Sheet from the cap supplier in order to properly connect the ca...

Page 75: ...Electronic Equipment This symbol indicates that this product shall not be treated as household waste Instead it shall be handed over to the appropriate collection point for the recycling of electrical...

Page 76: ...arily and the file type should be txt Coordinate ranges X Y and Z coordinate must be in the range between 0 and 12 All parameters can be chosen arbitrarily within the defined range but good practice i...

Page 77: ...window standard layout is offered by default From the dropdown menu Figure 14 1 choose the load new layouts option When clicked choose the folder where the layout files are stored After that all txt f...

Page 78: ...st be adapted to the language in which you installed Java This means that you must pay attention whether the float value has dot or comma as a delimiter and adapt the X Y Z to fit the new format in th...

Page 79: ...simplicityto complex researchexperiments mBrainTrain hereby declares that this SMARTING is in compliance with the essential requirements and other relevant provisions of Directive 1999 5 EC Po areva...

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