Samsung announced at the it’s Developer Conference that it is opening its first health-tracking platform to developers. The company also unveiled its Simband health tracker that keeps a tab on wearers heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure.
All these measurements are stored in amsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions consumer health SDK (SAMI). The band is based on Samsung’s SAMI health platform. The modular band has a modular element that be replaced with any piece of health tracking hardware. Simband was initially announced by Samsung in May this year, but the latest version has been updated with a new look. It also gets improved its sensor capabilities and algorithm accuracy.
The Simband boasts of six sensors viz electrocardiogram (ECG), bio-impedance, (bio-z), photoplethysmogram (PPG, using those fancy LED lights on the band), galvanic skin response (GSR), accelerometer, and skin temperature. Developers can choose and develop their own algorithms and sensors as per their choice.
Samsung also announced the availability of the Samsung Digital Health (SDH) Platform and SDK. The SDK syncs the all this data with the Samsung Cloud server via a Samsung account.