Sentences with phrase «by wearable sensors»

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The Top 5 VC funding deals in Q3 2014 were the $ 70 million raise by DXY (Ting Ting Group), an online healthcare community for medical institutions and healthcare providers in China, from Tencent Holdings Limited, a provider of comprehensive internet services in China, followed by the $ 52 million raise by Proteus Digital Health, a developer of products and services integrating medicines with ingestible sensors, wearable sensors, mobile and cloud computing.

While such a device sounds familiar to iRhytm's Zio patch, the patent suggests Apple is looking more broadly into the development of an ecosystem of products that would be anchored by a single wearable platform device (likely wrist - worn), and augmented through various hardware sensors that could live in, on, or around the body and communicate with the primary device.

In the study, Olshansky and colleagues use the number of steps taken daily — a measure collected by almost all wearable sensors — and show how, using scientifically verified formulas, the step data can be translated into measures of health risk.

Additional funding was provided by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the UCSD Center of Wearable Sensors, and the Thai Development and Promotion of Science and Technology Talents.

The researchers, led by Xuanhe Zhao, the Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Timothy Lu, associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and computer science, say that their technique can be used to fabricate «active» materials for wearable sensors and interactive displays.

«Having a wearable sweat sensor is really incredible because the metabolites and electrolytes measured by the Javey device are vitally important for the health and well - being of an individual,» said Brooks, a co-author on the study.

In the future, we can develop smarter assistive suits including wearable actuators and sensors by using our technique,» said Dr. Kurita.

«Until now, sweat sensors have typically involved patches that are removed for subsequent chemical analysis by separate, non-wearable machines,» says John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign, who is also developing wearable electronics.

That may not be so far away — a team of researchers at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea has developed a flexible, wearable 20 mm x 20 mm polymer sensor that can directly measure the degree and occurrence on the skin of goose bumps (technically known as «piloerection»), which is caused by sudden changes in body temperature or emotional states.

The CuPiD service will employ wearable sensors, audio biofeedback, exergaming and external cueing to provide intensive motivating training that will be suited to the patient and will be monitored remotely by experts to provide the best care while decreasing the burden of transport to a rehabilitation centre.

It should also be more accurate than the existing green optical sensors used by Fitbit in its wearables.

Of course, all Philips Hue products can be controlled by way of the Philips Hue app, wireless dimmer switch, motion sensor, and yes, even your wearable.

Lenovo's new ZUK Z2 Pro follows a new trend by offering 6 GB of RAM, along with a super fast fingerprint sensor and plenty of smart tracking sensors that could render your fitness wearable useless.

Microsoft believes that sensors and wearables have a huge potential on the market now dominated by Apple and Samsung.