BioSignals HS Sensor | somaticvision.com

BioSignals HS Benefits

Heart Rate (HRV) & Skin Conductance
Higher Accuracy than IOM or Lightstone
Strong, Durable, Individually Replaceable Heart Rate and Skin Conductance Sensors
USB Connection - Windows and macOS Compatible
Compatible with All iFeel Heart Rate Sensors
Includes Carrying Case
4-Channel version BioSignals HS+ also available (adds Temperature and Respiration training)

Information for Professionals

Works with Alive, Alive Clinical and Alive Pioneer
200 samples per second accuracy allows Smoothness / HRV training for people with low heart rate variability
Wide skin conductance range and high precision allows training skin conductance for people with relatively dry hands.
Use 2 BioSignals HS devices with Alive Pioneer to train Smoothness (HRV) or Skin Conductance of 2 users simultaneously
No Software Upgrade Cost for Owners of Alive
Train Heart Rate, Smoothness (HRV), BVP Amplitude (BVP Amplitude training requires Alive Pioneer), and Skin Conductance

New HRV & Skin Conductance Sensor — High Sensor Accuracy, Ease-of-use, & Comfort!

BioSignals HS — Professional Packages	Price	Order
Alive Clinical with BioSignals HS Sensor Includes Skin Conductance and Heart Rate Sensors. Download software, BioSignals HS arrives by mail.	$739
Alive Pioneer with BioSignals HS Sensor Includes Skin Conductance and Heart Rate Sensors. Download software, BioSignals HS arrives by mail.	$939
Alive Pioneer with BioSignals HS and Dreamscapes Save $200 when purchasing Dreamscapes with Alive Pioneer and a BioSignals HS Sensor. Includes Skin Conductance and Heart Rate Sensors. Download software, BioSignals HS Sensor arrives by mail.	$1238 $1038
BioSignals HS Sensor — (Sensor Only, No Software) Use with your existing copy of Alive. Includes Skin Conductance and Heart Rate Sensors. No Software Upgrade Cost for Owners of Alive. If you own Alive Pioneer and 2 BioSignals HS devices you can train with Dual Drive, Graph Training, Dreamscapes and some Environments with 2 people at the same time!	$349

Add-on / Replacement Sensors (require BioSignals HS Device)	Price	Order
Rubber Heart Rate Sensor This comfortable, soft-rubber sensor surrounds the finger, gently holding it in place and reducing ambient light. This results in higher accuracy and fewer movement errors.	$50
Two Foam Finger Sensors This is a pack of 2 soft foam sensors. You can adjust the size of these sensors, which makes them comfortable for large fingers, and allows you to measure very small fingers, such as those of young children. The velcro in these sensors can wear out if the size is adjusted often. These sensors can be used as permanent or disposable sensors.	2 sensors for $20
Skin Conductance Sensors Replacement set of two skin conductance sensors.	$20

Note: You will receive an acknowledgement of your order by email within 24 hours of your completed order. U.S. orders arrive within 2 weeks (international orders arrive within 3 weeks).

Which version of Alive is for me?

Clinician - High quality heart rate (HRV) and skin conductance sensors combined with the ease and fun of Alive! Choose Alive Clinical for heart rate smoothness (HRV) and skin conductance training for multiple clients.
Learn more about Alive Clinical (general Alive Clinical information includes information about other sensors)
Advanced Clinician - Choose Alive Pioneer to unlock additional features such as:
- Additional Pioneer Measurements
- New Pioneer Environments, which let you train any two feedback measurements at the same time
- Adaptive Breathing Pacer
- Detailed Heart Rate Frequency Analysis
- Unlimited number of graphing screens
- Microphone Audio Recording Synchronized to Session Data
- Much More
- Learn more about Alive Pioneer (general Pioneer information includes information about other sensors)
IOM or Lightstone sensors stopped working? emWave broken or showing heart rate errors? - Buy a BioSignals HS to use with your existing copy of Alive.
Home user with no professional training - Buy Alive Home with a BioSignals HS Sensor (Alive Home does not include skin conductance training)
Already have Alive - Add a BioSignals HS for increased heart rate and skin conductance accuracy.

Alive Add-on Games

Alive can be expanded with additional fun games. All games below require Alive and an Alive compatible sensor.

Add-on Software
Advanced Media Player for Alive Train with DVDs and video files		Learn More »
Dreamscapes for Alive Explore relaxing, super high-quality, environments. Draw, compose music, play Sudoku, crosswords & more.		Learn More »
Arcade Mega game pack for Alive		Learn More »
VR Train in Virtual Reality with an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive		Learn More »
Tropical Heat Jet Ski for Alive Escape to the tropics for a jet ski adventure		Learn More »
Particle Editor 3 for Alive Many fun & relaxing mini-game environments		Learn More »
Inner Tube 3 for Alive Race against the clock with 4 space ships through 80 tunnel levels		Learn More »

Download the BioSignals HS Hardware Setup User Guide

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Alive for BioSignals HS Features

Alive Pioneer	Alive Clinical	Alive
Unlimited User Profiles	Unlimited User Profiles	Up to 7 User Profiles
Train Skin Conductance (skin sweat), Heart Rate, Smoothness (HRV) and BVP Amplitude. 200 samples per second. New Pioneer heart rate measurements: Manually Ranged Smoothness - create your own smoothness difficulty level! Average Heart Rate - train large shifts in relaxation by decreasing average heart rate Heart Rate Range - train to increase the vertical range of your heart rate SCL Stability - quick to respond and easy to train BVP Amplitude - The amplitude of the blood volume pulse signal quickly decreases in response to negative feelings of stress. This responds similarly to skin conductance, but isn't as effected by momentary mental changes. A revolutionary new stress training tool. Arousal - A measurement based mostly on skin conductance but calibrated specifically for detection of changes in emotional state. Arousal means the intensity of the feeling of an emotional state, both anger and extreme happiness are high arousal, depression and relaxation are low arousal. Useful for training people who need to wake up and energize, or need to calm down and relax. Valence - Train emotional positivity! An experimental new measurement proprietary to Alive Pioneer. A very useful tool for people wanting to work with difficult emotions or changing emotional states.	Skin Conductance, Heart Rate and Heart Rate Smoothness (HRV) training with Alive Environments, Games and Graph Training	Heart Rate and Heart Rate Smoothness (HRV) training with Alive Environments, Games and Graph Training
Pacer Options: Standard Visual breath pacer or the new Alive Pioneer Adaptive Pacer. The Adaptive Pacer is an optimal and fine tuned breath pacer. It uses your heart rate changes to continuously adjust the breath pacer. You never have to set the pacer speed, even when changing users! Add an audio breath pacer. Select from a variety of audio breath pacers and/or hear a reward sound when the measurement you are training is above 80%.	Visual breath pacer	Visual breath pacer
Unlimited number of graphing screens can be open and recording at the same time. New graphing screens for all new Pioneer measurements. Additional customization options to design your own view. Resize and arrange graphs by resizing and arranging the graph windows into any combination desired. Graphing screens run and calculate data in the background for quick cycling between screens and views.	Detachable Graph Training module to use on a separate monitor as the User plays Alive Games, engages in Workshops, and explores Environments; Add comments, pause sessions, and view detailed graphs while playing Alive Games	Training on one monitor with Alive games or graphs.
All Clinical features plus: Emotion Graphing — showing changing emotional states BVP Amplitude Graph — View changing stress levels reflected through BVP Amplitude changes Full Data Analysis — All Pioneer Measurements have dedicated graphing screens, similar to the Alive Clinical graphs, with numerous statistical displays for each measurement. Full Monitoring Graph — Many measurements graphed at the same time Custom Graphs — Select line graphs to build your own graph screen New Graphs for All New Pioneer Measurements** — Similar to the Alive Clinical SCL graph, but new graphs for BVP amplitude, average heart rate, heart rate range, smoothness (LF/HF) and SCL stability. All new graphs have numerous statistical displays for that measurement.	Clinical Graph Training includes highly customizable graphing with audio feedback: Frequency Spectrum Graphing — shows the heart rate power spectrum, to determine which heart frequencies are dominant and how often the user is in the zone Accumulated Smoothness Graphing, including displays of detailed metrics*	Heart Rate Smoothness Graph Training
All Alive Clinical features plus Microphone Audio Recordings of Sessions - Optional microphone audio recording allows you to review physiological responses to what was spoken during session recording. Review new Pioneer measurements such as Average Heart Rate, BVP Amplitude and Heart Rate Range alongside original measurements such as heart rate and smoothness.	Clinical Session Review: Review any session with a high level of detail across time and/or by subset of session type: Heart Rate, Smoothness and Breath Pacer graphs Review by session with high level of detail: single and multi-session review by activity or across time Each graph shows the average, maximum, minimum, session start (first 15 seconds average), session end (last 15 seconds average), change, and percent change statistics for any measurement Export single or multi-session data to Excel for further analysis or to print a session summary	Session Review
In-game background music + ability to select any music of your own from your hard drive. Saves music changes, which allows you to switch the default music for environments and mini-games. New Pioneer feedback environments with over 1 hour of new music!	In-game background music + ability to select any music of your own from your hard drive	In-game background music
Send markers to Alive using our Integrated customizable picture display system synchronized to graphs Alive Marker Interface (requires basic programming knowledge), allowing E-Prime or other tools to synchronize with Alive graphs by marking events.	Send markers to Alive using our Alive Marker Interface (requires basic programming knowledge), allowing E-Prime or other tools to synchronize with Alive graphs by marking events.	No research interface.
Free auto-updates as new Pioneer features are added	Free auto-updates as new Clinical features are added	Free auto-updates as new features are added
* Length of time smooth, % time in each smoothness zone, total time smooth, LF/HF ratio ** Stability, min, max and average, audio feedback

Beyond
the computer

Alive is not just about computer training. Your Alive User Guide includes the multi-disciplinary Alive & Beyond 8-Week Program.

The Alive & Beyond 8-Week Program has been developed to help people get the most out of Alive, bringing in off-screen concepts and exercises to complement the Alive software.

In your clinical practice, you are likely to choose to incorporate Alive with your existing training protocols for working with various conditions. The Clinical User Guide supplement contains many tips and tricks for using the advanced Graph Training features in Alive to create desired outcomes.

Behind Alive

Alive is the brainchild of Ryan Deluz, a software engineer with a background in biology. Ryan's vision to bring a liveliness and ease-of-use to innovative and powerful self-regulating tools — and his passion for his work — are at the core of Alive.

Alive & Beyond — and much of the Alive software itself — was developed in partnership with Yuval Oded, a cognitive behavioral psychologist and leading expert in biofeedback. Yuval also authored the Clinical Version User Guide Supplement.

Yuval, a consultant to the French Ministry of Defense, is a Clinical Psychologist who has developed biofeedback programs to help military personnel keep a clear head, suppress unhelpful responses to difficult situations, and manage an array of decisions and tasks. In his clinics, Yuval treats a wide array of conditions, including anxiety disorders, behavioral disorders, chronic illnesses, neurological problems, psychosomatic problems, head trauma and post traumatic stress disorder.

What is Alive? - All Versions of Alive Include

Diagnostics, educational resources, progress tracking, and a virtual coach to teach you techniques for breathing to lower and smooth heart rate, how to interpret your body data, and to suggest a program for meeting your goals.

As you play the Alive Games and explore the Environments, the Coach (optionally) stays with you throughout the entire experience, evaluating your progress, and helping you maximize the effectiveness of Alive — suggesting alternative programs and approaches as you play.

Alive Games

The most fun part of Alive. Includes Dual Drive Pro Manual, Dual Drive Pro Autopilot, and an assortment of Alive Mini Games, including:

Dream House— Build a dream house from the ground up, beginning in the morning and finishing by parking your car in the new garage at sundown.
Green Thumb — Make a gorgeous hyacinth bloom and wow you with its showy ultramarine flowers.
Four Seasons — Propel a natural scene through all four seasons, enjoying spring showers, lush summer foliage, fall thunderstorms and the bare beauty of winter.
Alien Shuttle — Complete your alien mission by finding your way to the docking station in the mothership.
Night Flight — Enjoy navigating through a twinkling and busy cityscape.

Alive Environments

For training and development. Gorgeous visual environments to explore as you pace your breathing and smooth your heart rate include:

Alive Environments Breath Spiral — Move shiny particles in a 3D space as you inhale and exhale. Paced breathing creates a smoother heart and expands a disc of particles into spiraling waves.
Alive Environments Shape Shifter — The smoother your heart rate, the brighter a geometric shape becomes. Keep it smooth to see it morph into new forms.
Alive Environments Metal Pulse — Use paced breathing to turn undulating waves from orange to an intense blue.
Alive Environments Plasma — Use the pacer on the screen to smooth your heart rate and make undulating plasma appear. Slow the plasma by dropping your heart rate.
Alive Environments Tropical Ocean — Relax to make the wind blow the palm fronds and the wave sounds intensify.
Alive Audio Environments — Close your eyes, sink back into your chair, and breathe to smooth your heart rate. The more even your heart rate changes are, the more enveloping the music and relaxing sounds become. Choose from Rain, Stream, Waves, and Memory.

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Minimum System Requirements

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
- or -
macOS 10.10 - macOS 14 compatible with certain Alive sensors. See macOS Requirements Here.
2.0 GHz Processor, i5 or greater recommended
Dedicated Video Card with 512 MB of Dedicated Video Memory (almost any nVidia or AMD card)
1 GB RAM
3 GB of Disk Space
Internet connection recommended (enables updates and community features)
Alive may work even if your computer does not meet the minimum video card requirements. If you are unsure if Alive will work on your computer please download OpenGL Caps Viewer and make sure your OpenGL version is 2.0 or higher (on the first tab of OpenGL Caps Viewer, next to OpenGL, it should say OpenGL 2.0 or higher).
ALIVE MAY ONLY BE USED ON ONE COMPUTER AT A TIME. ALIVE CAN BE INSTALLED ON TWO COMPUTERS AS LONG AS ONLY ONE COPY OF ALIVE IS IN USE AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

Licensing and patent information

© 2009-2024 Somatic Vision Inc. Alive, Alive Clinical, Alive Pioneer, Gains & Drains, Today Log, Zoom Out, Change the Channel, Mental Mini-Breaks, Dual Drive, Dual Drive II, Dreamscapes, Somatic Vision VR, Inner Tube, Particle Editor, Tropical Heat, Advanced Media Player and Advanced Browser are all trademarks of Somatic Vision Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured under license from Quantum Intech, Inc. Quantum Intech and the Quantum Intech logo are trademarks of Quantum Intech, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. HeartMath and the HeartMath logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Institute of HeartMath in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Coherence algorithms contained within this product licensed from and © 1999-2010 Quantum Intech, Inc, with all rights reserved, and are protected by the following patents in the US: 6,358,201; 7,117,032; 7,163,512; 7,462,151 and 8,066,637. Other patents include: European Union 1156851; Canada 2,365,032; Australia 770323; China ZL00807109.8; Hong Kong HK1042056; Japan 4410234; Korea 10-0616370

Games that Help

Tropical Heat

Spend ten minutes a day playing relaxing heart rate feedback games to reduce stress, optimize breathing, and improve performance at work.

Learn More about Heart Rate Feedback Jet Ski Racing

DeLee Lantz, Ph.D., BCIA

Alive is terrific for kids and teens. So far I have used it primarily with 11 to 16 year-olds. With other systems, I could never get an accurate heart rate signal from many younger children because they were so wiggly, and I often had to have very short training sessions because of their short attention span. With Alive, these children sit quietly and don't want to stop, even after 55 minutes. To quote one young boy who caught on immediately: "I have to stay calm even when things get hard."

Adam Kahn, parent

We got a call from the school principal: Our son is doing better! I'm sure that Dual Drive has been a factor in his improvement. I love watching him calm down and breathe.