Samsung releases Sami's fitness tracking wrist strap simband Based on open source platform

http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17197.html "> Beijing time May 29 news, according to Foreign Science and technology website The Next Web report, Samsung in Wednesday local time in San Francisco held a" Voice from the body "the press conference. At the meeting, the company's president and chief policy officer, Young Sohn, released an open source platform Sami's fitness tracking wrist strap--simband.

Simband can measure and track human health data based on optical sensors and bio-impedance sensors, which Samsung refers to as a "clinical experimental device" that is not listed in the short term. The product is similar to the company's existing smart watches, using a square shell and a large color touch screen with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules. Simband wrist Strap can monitor the user's blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, heart rate and blood carbon dioxide content according to the different radiation wavelength of the wearer's skin, which is expected to add more complex functions, such as blood glucose monitoring. In addition, the Simband can power 24 hours, and when the user sleeps, "charge on the wrist". Young Sohn says we hope that future wearable devices will be available for All-weather standby.

It is said that the Simband hardware and software systems will be fully open to developers and modules, and the API for Sami open source platform is expected to open to developers at the end of this year. The company says it hopes to speed up the innovation of wearable devices by opening the entire system and modular hardware to developers.

According to published news, hardware developers can also implant their own hardware modules into the Samsung Simband wrist strap. The Software API interface is provided through the Sami cloud platform, and all data collected will be kept in the cloud. But the company says all data on the cloud will be protected from abuse by the market.

In an effort to encourage developers to make more contributions in the field of fitness tracking, Samsung has also announced investments in a project called "Digital Health" to provide as much as $50 million trillion in investment for tech start-ups and groups with outstanding contributions.

Original link: http://www.csdn.net/article/2014-05-29/2820006