Samsung Outs Health Smart Bio-Processor for Mobile
Samsung announced that it is addressing the growing trend of quantified health with an all-in-one advanced system logic chip for the health-oriented wearables market, the Bio-Processor.
The Samsung Bio-Processor, now in mass production, is specifically designed to allow accelerated development of innovative wearable products for consumers who are increasingly monitoring their health and fitness on a daily basis."With improvements in smart, fitness devices and an increase in consumer health consciousness, more and more people are looking for ways to monitor various personal bio-data, or fitness data, to constantly manage their health" said Ben K. Hur, Vice President of marketing, System LSI business at Samsung Electronics. "Samsung's Bio-Processor, which can process five different biometric signals, is the most versatile health and fitness monitoring chip available on the market today and is expected to open up many new health-based service options for our customers."
While heart rate monitoring alone may have been compelling in the past, the ability to measure a variety of fitness data is expected in today's wearable products. To meet such demands, Samsung has designed its Bio-Processor to integrate five AFEs including bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), photoplethysmogram (PPG), electrocardiogram (ECG), skin temperature, and galvanic skin response (GSR) into a single chip solution that measures body fat, and skeletal muscle mass, heart rate, heart rhythm, skin temperature and stress level, respectively. In addition, combinations of these fitness inputs can be considered for a variety of new use cases.
To speed product development and better understand Samsung's new Bio-Processor, several wearable reference platforms are now available to demonstrate various uses cases. For example, wrist band, board and patch type reference devices exhibit the Bio-Processor's potential by demonstrating its ability to measure multiple fitness variables on an extremely small device.
Samsung Bio-Processor is currently in mass production and will be available in fitness/health devices within the first half of 2016.
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i bet is connected to the internet and they will farm your health info to be used else where
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honestly, i'd like to see this technology pushed in automated self driving cars and emergency devices over the fitness hype. They could send a emergency signal if there is a accident with fatal wounds, if your elderly relative falls down, or if a hospital needs new wireless patient tech; for example, those video pills you swallow. On my wrist is cool for like 3 weeks - 3 months then i'm probably taking a break, working to much, and in really good shape. I have a moto 360 watch and hardly use the fitness app features; most are on your phone, you can take your own heart rate with 2 fingers, and steps!?! Fit people run miles.
If i were to get another wearable device it is going to need these features.
James Bond 007
1. Battery Life
2. Video calling
3. 007 Adb For opening electronically locked doors.
4. Toggle pre/post-paid Moble data when not connected to phone or on wifi.
Nonetheless, i'd like to see a picture of the silicon chip design!
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This seems like a good step forwards more usable portable personal biometric(if this is the correct term) devices.