Kardia bracelet makes an ECG from Apple Watch
Today it is very fashionable to monitor your health and physical form. Electronics manufacturers in time picked up this trend.
In smart watches from Apple, Samsung or LG A lot of functions that are somehow related to health. It is no longer possible to imagine such a device without a pulse or stepper meter.
But, the developers of such devices understand that these functions do not make it possible to use wearing electronics as a gadget who monitors health. In fairness, I must say that smart watches or fitness braces still have a different purpose.
But, already now there is information that soon manufacturers of such devices will be able to add to them the functions of determining the level of sugar in the blood and cholesterol in the body.
Moreover, today to expand the functionality of such popular smart watches as Apple Watch, you can at the expense of the bracelet Kardia. With it, these hours can be used as an ECG removal device.
How did Kardia bracelet develop?
INTERESTING: Kardia not the first device that was developed for joint use with Apple Watch. So, the company Glide I developed a bracelet for these smart watches with a built -in camera. As you know, in Apple Watch This module is not. But, with the help of a strap change, this shortage can be corrected from Cupertino. Strap Glide It has two built -in cameras (2 MP and 8 MP) and costs $ 149.
Bracelet Kardia created a group of scientists from a medical company Alivecor. This device in appearance cannot be distinguished from a regular strap for Apple Watch. But, its possibility of removing the ECG at home, make this strap a really brilliant invention.
How to use Kardia bracelet?
In order to use Kardia, you need to connect the strap to the clock and start a special application. After that, you need to attach a thumb to a special electrician, which is placed on this strap.
After about 30-40 seconds, after such pressing the finger to the electric drive, the system will give out the result on the screen Apple Watch. Numerous tests have shown that the result of such a study is not very different from the electrocardiography procedure in a special medical institution.
The application with which you can monitor your ECG can also be used to record your sensations during the day. For example, you can record when shortness of breath or increased sweating appeared. These data can help a cardiologist make a diagnosis more accurately.
All these applications can be “poured” into a cloud and further gain access to them through your iPhone or iPad. They can be printed on a printer or set your doctor by e -mail. True, they will only be interested in him if your doctor will trust the data Kardia.
Obtaining ECG data on Apple Watch using Kardia
The developers of this “smart” strap claim that these heart work are processed with a unique algorithm, which can accurately determine the malfunctions in its work, arrhythmia and diseases of the cardiovascular system. And thanks to the visual display of data through the application for Apple Watch, even a person far from medicine can learn about the problem with your health. Which will allow him to identify the problem with the heart at the early stage of the development of the disease.
Company Alivecor It is already released not the first device for removing the cardiogram at home. Prior to this, for the owners of the latest IPhone versions, special covers for their smartphones on which were placed exactly the same electrode as in the bracelet Kardia. Such covers cost $ 99. The cost of a smart bracelet is $ 200.