HARDWARE / AVANTARI
Dhyana 1
A ring built to measure how you meditate.
A smart ring that uses heart rate variability to measure how well you are meditating. It became the official meditation partner of the Indian Olympic Association.
Client
Avantari
Year
2019
Discipline
Hardware
Partner
Indian Olympic Association
Services
Industrial design, PCB, Sensors, App
The brief
Meditation had no feedback loop.
You could practise for years without knowing whether it was working. Mindfulness is the ability to stay with the breath — and nobody was measuring that.
The constraint
Measure attention without interrupting it.
The ring had to capture HRV at high resolution, interpret it in real time and give useful feedback without turning meditation into another screen-led experience.
FILM / DHYANA
Measuring a meditation session.
THE MEASUREMENT
Attention, as a number.
Heart rate variability is a psycho-physiological marker of wellbeing. Tracked at industry-leading resolution inside a ring, it turns attention into something you can read.
A first
The first smart ring to measure meditation quality.
IN PRACTICE
It corrects you while you sit.
Immediate biofeedback
The ring and app read your state as you meditate, and prompt you back with sound and visuals.
Works with what you already use
Any form of meditation and any app, including Spotify and YouTube.
ENDORSEMENT
“Dhyana gave our athletes something they had never had — proof that the mental training was working.”
Pullela Gopichand · National Badminton Coach, India
THE OLYMPICS
Worn by Indian athletes preparing for the Olympic Games.
OLYMPICS
Official meditation partner to the Indian Olympic Association.
BIOFEEDBACK
Real-time prompts, not after-the-fact reports.
WHAT HAPPENED
Meditation became measurable — and made it to the Olympics.
A FIRST
A ring built specifically to measure meditation quality.
IOA PARTNER
Official meditation partner to the Indian Olympic Association.
REAL-TIME
Biofeedback during the meditation session, not after it.
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