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In 1986, in the context of scientific research at the Institute for Pathological Physiology (IPP) at the Charité University Clinic in Berlin, the basis for a new chronobiological-based regulation diagnosis for the analysis of time series data was created (HIMEM skin resistance measuring device, and ESMEM sleep duration measuring device).
With the help of these methods, a set of studies in the area of stress research, sleep research, space medicine, special pedagogy and in music impact research yielded new scientific findings in the areas of the psychophysiology, chronobiology and chronomedicine. In 2008, Chronomar GmbH was established.
The core product, the SMARD-Watch®, was developed in 1997 by the Institute for Stress Research (I.S.F) GmbH Berlin under the direction of Dr. H-U. Balzer and Professor. K. Hecht MD for use in human subjects. The first test of the SMARD Watch® in an animal subject (dog) took place in the year 2000 at the ISF. The substantive principles of chronobiological regulation diagnosis were developed at Institute for Stress Research Berlin. These methods were refined and developed in the context of the music impact research in the context of the Humans and Music Research Network of the Mozarteum University, Salzburg. Since 2001 the SMARD-Watch® has been used in a variety of scientific studies (i.e. clinical studies, studies in the area of special pedagogy, psychology, music and art impact research, music therapy etc.). The application in animals began in 2001 at Institute for Agrarian and Urban Ecological Projects (IASP) at the Humboldt University in Berlin and thus was applied in the context of various projects, such as behavioural studies of dogs and farm animals. The development of the SMARD Watch has been managed since 2007 in co-operation with the BITSz GmbH, the IASP and Frankenförder Research Association (FFG).
