Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

CertiViBE, a medically certifiable core for OpenViBE, the software for Brain Computer Interfaces and Neuroscience research. It is a iLAB project between the Inria project-team Hybrid and Mensia Technologies SA (http://www.mensiatech.com/ )

Founded in 2012, Mensia Technologies is a medical-device spin-off of Inria owning an exclusive worldwide license of the OpenViBE software for commercial applications. So far, OpenViBE has raised a lot of interest in the research community, especially on medical applications. However, OpenViBE being a research-software, it does not yet matches the requirements of medical devices in terms of stability, performance, documentation, as well as engineering processes in general, slowing down the transfer of OpenViBE-based medical research to the industry. Within the CertiViBE project, Inria and Mensia Technologies are putting their task forces and respective expertise together to deliver a certifiable core for the OpenViBE software. While the OpenViBE software will continue to be published as an Open Source software, the project will dramatically facilitate the transfer of the research made with OpenViBE as it will be built on ready-to-certify foundations, following the processes and normative regulation of medical devices development including risk analysis, quality assurance and medical device software development and maintenance.