2016年1月23日星期六

New technology is coming: measuring heart rate without touching

Heart rate is an important part of fitness track. From Apple Watch to wearable devices such as a user-specific heart rate chest belt, all the equipments can provide the uses with accurate heart rate tracking. But have you thought about tracking your heart rate without wearing a device? Recently, a research team Kyoto University in Japan is working with Panasonic Corporation to develop millimeter-wave radar technology and a specially designed algorithm to achieve this goal.

The new technology can collect uses' real-time heartbeat upon telemetry. The data would be collected by the millimeter-wave radar first and then processed by an algorithm. The algorithm can isolate the heartbeat of the object, excluding interference from other signals emitted by the body, such as breathing and body movements.

The research team believes that measuring data without wearing sensor can reduce the user's pressure during a test, which means that users will be more willing to use the technology.

Although the results of early testing under controlled environment equivalent ECG tracings return the data, the technology is still some time to be commercialized. "Now that we know that remote sensing is feasible, we need to make the detection capability more powerful so that the system can detect target objects of different ages under different situations," Toru Sato Kyoto University said.

Read more if you're interested: http://www.cusabio.com/Polyclonal-Antibody/ATL3-Antibody-11098193.html

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