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My name is Jeremy, and today we're going to be talking about the JTECH IRIS Instrument
Registration and Interface Software product, which is used typically when a retail JTECH
software product, such as Tracker, may not be useful or necessary in situations where
raw data may be required. So this can be used in cases where research is being performed
and a clinical interface isn't necessarily needed, or in cases where a domestic or international
users may not require the English interface that comes standard with JTECH retail software.
So in the standard interface, we have on the left hand side a list of all of the JTECH
measurement tools - the objective measurement tools - for range of motion, strength, that
are available for use with the product. In the middle area we have a command bar that
can be used to send commands to the devices to enable, disable, load them, or erase them.
And across the bottom we have a large status area which will give us the real-time status
of the device once we begin to communicate with it and start to get readings. In the
middle of the screen we have an error log that will eventually give us any feedback
and results from the devices, including error codes and other states. And then in the top
right hand corner we have a graph area that will eventually provide us a real-time data
feed from the instrument. For today's demonstration I'm going to be using a JTECH Grip Strength
Gauge, you may have seen it in other capacities before, standard five position grip strength
unit. And you'll also need a receiver of some sort, in this case one of our USB Freedom
receivers. It is able to establish connections to up to four devices simultaneously, so that
could include two inclinometers for dual inclinometry, range of motion and strength concurrently
if you wish, basically any of the devices on that left hand side can be connected to
simultaneously, up to four at a time. To begin recording output from the device, we have
a small record button here we can click to start recording data. Before we do that though,
I'd like to just point out the output settings at the bottom, we can specify an output folder,
or we can choose to open that folder in Windows explorer. Here, I've already prepared an IRIS
output folder right on my C drive, but you can choose any location that makes sense for
you. I'm going to go ahead and start recording output from the device, and as I start to
apply force to the device, and again just squeezing on the grip gauge, we actually see
I'm sustaining a grip here, and that value is being recorded to our output file. Once
we have put in a few repetitions or whatever our output is that we desired, we can click
on the stop button to stop recording data. The device of course continues to read from
the wireless gauge, but our output file now has been completed. So let's take a look and
see what that output actually looks like. Again, by default, comma separated values,
and so in my case it's going to open in Microsoft Excel. So the raw data is pretty straightforward,
you can use it in just about any capacity you need, you can use this to capture maximum
value, sustained force curves just like you saw inside the IRIS interface, or extrapolate
just about any data that you need from those raw data values. In addition to viewing the
data points in their plain text output, you can also use standard visualization features
in spreadsheet products, such as Excel, to visualize the output in any way you find useful.
You can do line graphs, bar graphs, or really anything else that strikes your fancy. We
also provide an example program that was created by JTECH software development, to give you
an example of how you can create your own custom software and use the API to interface
with the hardware devices as well. In the sample program, you can see that we allow
an enable feature, a disable feature, and a few standard components for seeing the output
from the device in real-time, but with a little bit of creativity, and fitting your application
to the IRIS software, you can basically do anything that you need to. If you have questions
about how IRIS can work for you and your physical evaluation project, please get in touch with
JTECH Medical, we have representatives here who are ready to help you to customize something
for your needs. And we also provide post-sales support for development purposes and technical
matters as necessary. Thanks very much for your time, attention and interest in JTECH
software products.