There are different types of wearable devices for monitoring fitness, including bracelets, small clips, and headphones that monitor heart rate.
According to the founder of Life-Q Health Company, the future of health technology and fitness wearable devices is not only about fitness bands and health monitors, but also about the data collected by these devices.
Technology today focuses on developing devices and transferring them to the wrists, but this will change in the very near future when consumers' demand increases for plastic parts to wear on their wrists.
“The mobile health devices use a system very similar to the system used in weather forecasts, with certain parameters and sophisticated computer prediction devices,” says Ryan Conrady, a computer biologist and founder of Life-Q.
Wearable Devices
The market for wearable technology has boomed in the past few years, and according to Gartner Research, more than seventy million fitness and health monitors were sold in 2014, and sales are expected to reach 68 million in 2015.
There are different types of wearable devices for monitoring fitness, including bracelets, small clips, and headphones that monitor heart rate. As the capacity of the sensors increased and the cost decreased, the price of the devices fell to around £ 50.
Data collection and analysis
The purpose of these devices, Conrady says, is not just to make them wearable, but to collect data from them, analyze it, and then use it for the benefit of the user.
Life-Q applies models from computational biology to the data collected from these devices to provide a clear picture of a user's current and projected body condition.
Conrady says that the user does not want a device that only tells him that his sleep is irregular, but rather that he knows the reason behind this disturbed sleep, and here lies the benefit of these devices, so the user begins to change his habits and do something to fix this problem.
Jobon, a manufacturer of health and fitness monitoring devices, launched its AB3 bracelet, which monitors sleep and heart rate, and also collects and uses this data to improve sleep and general health.
Other companies such as Fitbit, Miss Fit and IntelBase are also producing devices similar to those devices, while Google Fit, Microsoft Health and Apple Health promised to create global content for personal health data collected. From multiple devices to provide the most accurate and clear analysis of that data.
Privacy!
Conrady emphasized that doing accurate data analytics is a job that a company cannot complete on its own, unless there is a collaboration between medicine, science and technology to provide the best result.
The command to collect and analyze data about a user's health details is very beneficial for their general fitness and health. However, the security of this personal data remains a very important one.
"This year may be considered bad in terms of security in general," says Conradi, "but personal data remains a sensitive issue and it should be the responsibility of everyone, users and companies, to protect it." And he continues, “The police and security protection are available in the country, but we still have a responsibility to lock the doors. Security is everyone’s responsibility, including users and companies.”
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