Samsung expands health and wellness ecosystem with more connected and diverse services – Samsung UK Newsroom

Samsung’s extensive developer toolkit supports more accurate health monitoring, preventative driving safety, medical research, and deeper health insights.

Samsung Electronics has unveiled a series of new tools ahead of the Samsung Developers Conference 2022 (SDC2022) that will help developers and communities shape the health, wellness and safety habits of consumers around the world. These include Samsung Privileged Health SDK for specific members, API detection tool To support user safety, Samsung’s new comprehensive research solution for healthcare, clinical and educational programs, as well as ongoing partnership opportunities with Health Connect.

“Samsung’s health foundation is rooted in our advanced hardware and sensor technology, which is enhanced by our open ecosystem and collaborative approach,” said TaeJong Jay Yang, Executive Vice President and Head of Mobile eXperience Business Health R&D Team at Samsung Electronics. That’s why I’m excited to announce extended developer tools, APIs, and partner offerings that enable third-party experts, think tanks, and universities to enhance tracking and monitoring capabilities. insight of wearable devices for health, wellness and safety more broadly.

Samsung Privileged Health SDK Advances in Defensive Driving Safety

Samsung collaborates with selected industry leaders to develop personalized health services. With safety being one of Samsung’s focus areas, this collaboration will provide entirely new preventive tools to make roads safer by identifying early signs of driver fatigue and stress.

Samsung’s work with Tobii, the global leader in eye tracking and attention computing that develops software to monitor drowsiness, is one such example. If users wish, the Samsung Privileged Health SDK It allows Tobii to detect in real time the heart rate captured by the Galaxy Watch’s sensors and to determine the wearer’s drowsiness level. In addition, Harman, a leader in connected car technology, voice innovations, and IoT solutions, recently introduced ready care A complete, customized in-cab sensing solution for driver safety and comfort. In addition to detecting distraction, fatigue, and vital signs, users can enable this ready careMeasurement of cognitive load and stress level and can provide alternative route suggestions to reduce driver fatigue.

Healthcare: New Fall Detection API to Enhance Safety Capabilities

Health Services provides APIs that allow developers and third parties to take advantage of the Galaxy Watch’s powerful sensors and algorithms for more accurate and advanced health offerings. Samsung introduces a new API for the ecosystem that provides adjustable sensitivity for fall detection, strengthens preemptive security and paves the way for more potential offerings.

Developers can now build services using Galaxy Watch’s fall detection algorithms that detect a user’s trip or fall by combining different sensors, including the accelerometer and gyroscope. This API allows the development of applications for users who may experience unexpected accidents. Additionally, Galaxy users can even adjust sensitivity levels whether standing, moving, or exercising via the app. Wearable Galaxy. Like sleep tracking that detects restless movements or falls out of bed to get a more complete picture of a user’s sleep, this API opens up new opportunities for developers and users alike.

Comprehensive Research Solution: Accelerate Research and Medical Services

Samsung also offers an open source project that provides end-to-end solutions that combine the SDK, a system back end A gateway to a variety of health applications. This comprehensive healthcare toolkit supports clinical research and trials, starting at the developer level, by providing advanced insights through Galaxy watches and wearables to support medical research in organizations, hospitals, health centers and more.

Researchers can use this open source project to create modules that enable participants to join a study in an informed and frictionless manner, simplifying the setup process. In addition, there are also flexible survey templates to meet the changing needs of organizations. From there data ideas Relevant information is easily collected from wearable devices, while participants are guided by it ideas Practical training throughout the process. The encrypted data of the participants is then sent to the system back end Where the medical and health communities monitor and analyze ideas Collected to inform patient treatment plans, upcoming research, and more. Sebastian Seung, President and Head of Samsung Research, will announce more details about the new project in the SDC22 keynote.

Health Connect: More ideas and data control

Health Connect, in collaboration with Google in 2022, offers developers a unique set of APIs that enable the continuous creation of new fitness and health experiences. Health Connect, currently in beta, provides centralized privacy controls for users that make it easy to grant permissions to the health and fitness apps they want to share their on-device data with. Now, Samsung Health and Fitbit, along with leading health and fitness apps including Leap Fitness, MyFitnessPal and Withings, have adopted the Health Connect app to enable a more impactful and holistic health experience. With user permission, app developers can take advantage of some of the data shared via Health Connect to use in their own apps to give users a more complete picture of their health.

Samsung is committed to providing its community, including users, third parties, developers, and more, with improved tools and resources to build and augment more informed and diverse health services. As part of Samsung’s holistic health and wellness initiatives, the company will continue to provide an expanded ecosystem of which the Samsung community will be more than during SDC22 – enabling users to get more ideas and information on health and wellness.