Ahmedabad: It's an age of wearables and bio-patches, devices that monitor your body condition, your exertion every second to create a data log. Combine it with the power of Android and mobile applications and it renders a whole new definition to healthcare. The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for Information Communication Technology (DAIICT), Embedded Systems Research Group, has made one such wearable device that monitors your body temperature with clinical efficiency every 34 seconds and beams the data to any android phone used for the purpose.
The device is designed like a watch and can be worn on the wrist. "The watch has a special clinical thermal sensor that remains in constant touch with your skin. Today, a change in body temperature can be linked to numerous health issues such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes and even fainting fits in children," says Biswajit Mishra, associate professor at DAIICT, Gandhinagar. The thermo-sensor watch can even be extended to the dairy industry for monitoring livestock to check for signs of disease, besides its primary use in home-based clinical applications. The cost is almost one-fourth of similar technology available in the market.
"In hospitals, wearable temperature recording devices replace the need for attendants or caregivers to monitor temperature. In large dairy farms it becomes critical for the farmer to keep track of the body temperatures of their livestock, which influences milk production," says Mishra. Some of the new versions of the wearable intelligent thermometer, that the DAIICT team is working on, is embedding tiny solar cells so that the device attains energy autonomy. "Right now we just have a coin sized battery to power the wearable device, which does not need a replacement for a little above two years," says Mishra.
Ahmedabad: It's an age of wearables and bio-patches, devices that monitor your body condition, your exertion every second to create a data log. Combine it with the power of Android and mobile applications and it renders a whole new definition to healthcare. The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for Information Communication Technology (DAIICT), Embedded Systems Research Group, has made one such wearable device that monitors your body temperature with clinical efficiency every 34 seconds and beams the data to any android phone used for the purpose.
The device is designed like a watch and can be worn on the wrist. "The watch has a special clinical thermal sensor that remains in constant touch with your skin. Today, a change in body temperature can be linked to numerous health issues such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes and even fainting fits in children," says Biswajit Mishra, associate professor at DAIICT, Gandhinagar. The thermo-sensor watch can even be extended to the dairy industry for monitoring livestock to check for signs of disease, besides its primary use in home-based clinical applications. The cost is almost one-fourth of similar technology available in the market.
"In hospitals, wearable temperature recording devices replace the need for attendants or caregivers to monitor temperature. In large dairy farms it becomes critical for the farmer to keep track of the body temperatures of their livestock, which influences milk production," says Mishra. Some of the new versions of the wearable intelligent thermometer, that the DAIICT team is working on, is embedding tiny solar cells so that the device attains energy autonomy. "Right now we just have a coin sized battery to power the wearable device, which does not need a replacement for a little above two years," says Mishra.
The device is designed like a watch and can be worn on the wrist. "The watch has a special clinical thermal sensor that remains in constant touch with your skin. Today, a change in body temperature can be linked to numerous health issues such as heart disease, obesity or diabetes and even fainting fits in children," says Biswajit Mishra, associate professor at DAIICT, Gandhinagar. The thermo-sensor watch can even be extended to the dairy industry for monitoring livestock to check for signs of disease, besides its primary use in home-based clinical applications. The cost is almost one-fourth of similar technology available in the market.
"In hospitals, wearable temperature recording devices replace the need for attendants or caregivers to monitor temperature. In large dairy farms it becomes critical for the farmer to keep track of the body temperatures of their livestock, which influences milk production," says Mishra. Some of the new versions of the wearable intelligent thermometer, that the DAIICT team is working on, is embedding tiny solar cells so that the device attains energy autonomy. "Right now we just have a coin sized battery to power the wearable device, which does not need a replacement for a little above two years," says Mishra.
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