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First smart speaker for contactless monitoring of both regular and irregular heartbeats – News-Medical.Net
Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home. For example, researchers at the University…
Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home. For example, researchers at the University of Washington have shown that these devices can detect cardiac arrests or monitor babies breathing.
But what about tracking something even smaller: the minute motion of individual heartbeats in a person sitting in front of a smart speaker?
UW researchers have developed a new skill for a smart speaker that for the first time monitors both…
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