Wear equipment in the ascendant

Absrtact: The author is Dr. Li Tingwei, president of Greater China area of Bo Tong Company, authorize hardware to invent first. With the introduction of Google Glasses, wearable technology has become a hot topic for the public to talk about. And the one thing that's most interesting is the wearable equipment

The author for Bo Tong Company Greater China President Li Tingwei, authorized hardware again invented the first.

With the introduction of Google Glasses, wearable technology has become a hot topic for the public to talk about. One of the most compelling concerns in this area is the discussion of the use of wearable devices in health-care applications-wearable devices can not only help users maintain a healthier lifestyle, but also reduce the cost of health care.

Wear equipment in the ascendant

Nowadays, many consumers have begun to use wearable equipment to manage their health status. Wearable devices can track users ' daily activities through smartphone applications and record calorie intake and combustion, or monitor health status by tracking information about the pace and monitoring temperature, stress and even sleep quality. These so-called "fitness tracking equipment" is only the tip of the iceberg, according to the U.S. market research and analysis company ABI study predicts that by 2018, the income of wearable wireless health equipment is expected to exceed 6 billion U.S. dollars.

From a sci-fi-style helmet to a skin patch, to a sensor on a garment, different forms of wearable equipment will enter the consumer market at a faster rate than we can imagine. Wearable devices can be used in a variety of applications, such as a built-in sensor in a watch that tells you exactly how your body is reacting to treatment, and a smart bandage that can monitor pain can help you relieve pain by sending an electronic pulse. In addition to providing data to assist clinical applications, wearable devices can also monitor autism and attention deficit patients, and even prevent seizures in patients with sudden onset.

Integrated wear equipment for information

With the perfect combination of wireless access and innovative technologies such as mobile computing, cloud services and sensors, these once-inaccessible wearable health devices are getting closer to our lives. The core of this perfect combination is the wireless connection of the sensing device, which allows the individual to transmit data to the cloud and be analyzed and properly maintained. We can reduce the workload of the latter by using smartphones and tablets as a helper for sensing devices. This is particularly important because one of the biggest challenges in the burgeoning wearable health market is data processing and storage.

Wearable medical and health equipment can collect a great deal of data from our bodies and behavior, but the amount of data that is constantly being tracked and collected is staggering. More complicated, the raw data also needs to be processed and analyzed based on additional background information to give it practical value. For example, when a clinician sees a patient's raw data showing his heart rate soaring, he will come to a different conclusion if he knows the patient is just waking up or just running 5-kilometer.

The management of all these data is essential to ensure that users and professionals in the relevant health industry maximize their benefits from wearable equipment. Some companies are developing their own applications to solve the problem, but even such a solution is still not ideal because it is basically spreading information across multiple applications. The ideal solution requires a merging point that integrates information from multiple input paths into one application, making the latter the role of an information integrator. Not only is it a database, it can also perform the necessary data processing to ensure that important personal health change information is sent securely to the appropriate clinician.

Privacy Information Protection

Another issue involved in data management is personal privacy. Who controls the data? Who has the right to browse you, your doctor or even your insurance company information? Patients have the right to require confidentiality of their own health information and to ensure that all data collected through wearable health equipment is safe. The health Insurance Privacy and Responsibility Act (HIPAA) is bound to be a positive help for the issue, which requires protection and confidentiality of protected health information. However, we also need to establish a higher level of security, which should go beyond the current security level of the medical database, especially if the data collected through wearable devices is stored in the cloud.

Assuming that all the data collected by wearable health equipment is effectively managed and protected, we also need to face another challenge. For example, what happens if everyone uses a device that monitors heart rate data and keeps wireless data collection and data synchronization? Wireless networks are likely to be overwhelmed with large access requirements. To avoid this kind of access pressure, the wireless industry needs to do its best to ensure that the infrastructure works efficiently and stably to withstand the pressure of greater load. This means that we will need new access points and home gateways, small base stations, return networks, and high-capacity switches to help us manage data traffic that is growing at a geometric level.

In addition, in order to mitigate the challenge of rising data traffic, we can upgrade the processing power of smartphones and tablets to enable them to cope with the large amount of data collected from emerging wearable health devices. This will also help reduce the processing requirements and power requirements of wearable equipment, thereby reducing the cost to manufacturers and users.

There is no doubt that the development of wearable technology is far beyond the conceptual stage, but its impact on the health industry has just begun, the impact of how much remains to be disputed. But with the right technical support, everything is possible.