Soon, manufacturers will unveil wearable devices to measure your blood pressure, illness and register findings via Wi-Fi.
ABI research says that — come 2017 — one out of five wearable Wi-Fi devices will be a health care device.
A new wave of wearable devices are coming to market that will help track and share data from a range of activities and conditions. These devices will track the pace of someone’s daily run, recognize a fall that might have injured a senior, report the blood sugar level in a diabetic, and monitor the heart rate of a patient in hospital, ABI said.
The research firm says that in five years the market for wearable devices will be at 169.5 million devices up from 20 million in 2011. This will open new avenues for health care monitoring since a good portion will be for health care.
Jonathan Collins, principal analyst, navigation, telematics in ABI said, “The breadth of the potential for this market isnot just drawing in consumer giants like Nike and Adidas and established healthcare players such as GE Healthcare and Philips, but a wealth of start-ups and specialist players looking to wearable wireless devices to enable a wide range of networked health applications and services.”
“As the devices can be worn and can upload collected data to the network automatically, collected data can not only be more regularly collected but also shared, analyzed, and acted on quicker and more efficiently that existing wired or manpower-laden techniques,” Collins added.
ABI Research’s report, “Body Area Networks for Sports and Healthcare,” examines the potential for devices and applications across a range of sports and healthcare applications, including analysis of a range of embedded technology options including short-range wireless and M2M (Machine to Machine) connectivity.
In February this year, HumanIPO explored a new invention by a young Cameroonian Engineer Arthur Zang. The 24 year old invented a tablet, Cardiopad that can be used to administer checkups such as Electrocardogram, in remote parts of Africa.
