This new bio-process would immensely help Samsung to sell its wearables and give it a much needed edge over other players. Bio processor enabled devices will be able to measure various health parameters such as fat percentage, stress level, skeletal muscle mass, heart rate and rhythm, and skin temperature.
These devices will give the boost to the wearable industry that is still in the infant stage. Today’s wearables aren’t of much help and are just some stylish accessories that only track steps, heart rate and calories burned.
Athletes avoid such devices owing to the fact that they do not help their training in true sense. With the bio-processors, we could really help these athletes in their training by tracking them and improving their performance in those areas. Not only that, medical patients can be monitored remotely without the need of a doctor physical.
“With improvements in smart, fitness devices and an increase in consumer health consciousness, more and more people are looking for ways to monitor various personal bio-data, or fitness data, to constantly manage their health” said Ben K. Hur, Vice President of marketing, System LSI business at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung’s Bio Processor, which can process five different biometric signals, is the most versatile health and fitness monitoring chip available on the market today and is expected to open up many new health-based service options for our customers.”
This all-in-one health chip can be a one stop solution that has the potential to revolutionize the health industry as well as wearable industry. Samsung has informed that bio processor will be available in 2016 and are already in the initial production stage.
