With several competitors, the market for connected rings is booming. They are used in particular to analyze the health of the wearer, such as the average number of hours of sleep, for example.
At Microcity, an innovation center located in Neuchâtel, the EPFL start-up Senbiosys is working on an extreme miniaturization of the technology that makes up these rings, in order to guarantee them a suitable size.
To work, this ring is equipped with sensors. “They use light to measure several vital signals, for example the heartbeat and its variability, the oxygen level of respiration or blood pressure”, explained Antonino Caizonne, co-founder and director of the start-up, Saturday in the 7:30 p.m. of the RTS.
Perfect but useful
For Thierry Weber, doctor and digital health specialist, this type of object can still be improved, but can already play an important role in prevention.
“In the future, these tools will make it possible to monitor the patient at home and, for example, to generate alarms when the state of health of these patients deteriorates”, he predicts. “And there, it will be really an interesting utility for the clinical doctor, insofar as this connected equipment is certified”, adds Thierry Weber.
A medical certification that is expensive and time-consuming, as it must be supported by clinical studies involving tens or even hundreds of patients.
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