i-Cognia: Brain-Controlled System Empowering Independent Living for People with Motor Impairments

Overview

Over 2.5 million people living with motor impairments like Amyotrophic-Lateral-Sclerosis and Quadriplegia depend entirely on caregivers, as their only remaining capability is eye-blinks. Yet no affordable, user-friendly solution is available that only uses eye-blinks. i-Cognia reads blink-generated brain signals from scalp using electrodes, self-calibrates, and enables independent control of communication and home-environment. Users can independently control their world just by eye-blinks like triggering emergency alerts, contacting caregivers, controlling home appliances, doing cognitive-training. i-Cognia is quick to set up, needs minimal training, and works reliably in everyday environments, making it practical for home, care facilities, and other settings. Compared to current state-of-the-art solutions, such as sip-and-puff switches (~2 bits/min, $5,000+, unsuitable for users with only eye-blink control), surgical implants ($100,000+), and environment-dependent camera-based eye trackers; i-Cognia achieves over 15 bits/min at a fraction of cost while remaining fatigue-free, non-invasive, surgery-free, environment-independent, head-angle insensitive, and widely accessible.

Awards (2)

• Bronze Medal
• Selected for CWSF 2026

Competition history

• CWSF 2026 Disease & Illness

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