Samsung looks to imec for health sensor technology
The Simband platform includes an open reference sensor module integrating sensing technologies developed at imec and its Holst Research Center in Eindhoven.
These optical sensors use LEDs generating different frequencies to measure blood oxygen at different layers in the skin. Combining this with an ECG electric measurement gives the time for blood to arrive at the wrist, giving an estimation of blood pressure.
The 14 x 34 mm Simband body houses an 1-GHz dual core ARM A7 28nm processor with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and uses a new cloud-based open software platform called SAMI (Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions).
This can be used to collect data from a variety of sources, aggregate it and display it, and will allow devices and sensors to securely store data in the cloud regardless of the source’s format or structure. SAMI will also allow data to be controlled by the individual generating it and not by third-parties, so that personal health data can be better protected.
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