BRIDGE - Biosignal Acquisition Software Suite

BRIDGE (Biosignal Research and Integrated Data Gathering Environment) is a cross-platform software for acquiring, processing, and analyzing biosignals such as EMG, built from a single codebase that compiles to native distributions for desktop (Windows, MacOS, Linux), Android, and iOS.

I conceptualized, created, and named this software when I first started building it in June 2025. Since then, it’s taken a valuable role as part of other researcher pipelines and taken on several more developers and scientists along the way!

It’s designed for researchers in neuroengineering, prosthetics, and neurorobotics who need device-agnostic signal acquisition (BLE, WIFI, UDP, Serial) and real-time processing across heterogeneous hardware, without maintaining separate platform-specific builds or being locked into a single vendor’s hardware/software bundle.

Its central technical claim, and the subject of an ongoing validation study, is that modern Chromium-based engines are now sufficient to meet the latency and fidelity demands of biomedical research (paticularly in the world of Neuroengineering). This serves as as shift from the native, per-platform tooling (such as in-house research tools built with LabVIEW or MATLAB) or custom software built using industry standards such as .NET or Qt that has historically dominated this space.

BRIDGE’s single-codebase-to-any-OS approach is what enables the acceleration of lab-to-home translation: the same application running a controlled recording session on a lab workstation can run on a participant’s own phone or tablet outside the lab, supporting longitudinal or naturalistic data collection and closed-loop prosthetic control validation beyond short in-lab sessions, without building a separate mobile-specific pipeline.