Google debauchery at Nest to work on the smart health home

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For better productivity, Alphabet does not hesitate to increase exchanges between its subsidiaries. This is how dozens of Nest engineers were sent to Google to work on the smart health home, which is nevertheless the core business of the firm recently headed by Marwan Fawaz.

Initiated by Google, this migration may well have been caused by the imminent market launch of health home, the brand new voice assistant of the brand supposed to act as a health home automation hub for the whole house, competing with the Amazon Echo. The engineers will now be in charge of carrying out this project, under the supervision of Hiroshi Lockheimer, at the head of the Android and Chrome division of Mountain View since the promotion of Sundar Pichai to CEO and the departure of Andy Rubin. A section which also takes care of Brillo and of Weave, its platform and its protocol dedicated toIoT.

At present, the Google health home does not haveno partnership with major players in the smart health connected objects sector, unlike the program Works with Nest which is the ambition. Among the existing collaborations and which could, via this movement, be found at the health home, we find in particular Belkin, Philips, august, Whirlpool, Logitech, Misfit, Amazon, Lutron, Trackr, Pebble, MyFox, Sen.se, Withings…

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While this reshuffle could also be a solution allowing Alphabet to keep control of Nest’s business while monitoring its progress, there is a good chance that it is also a means of helping development … smart health connected bathroom.

 

The smart bathroom according to Google

Google has indeed filed a patent describing a smart health connected bathroom capable ofrecord health data of its user, while forwarding to a doctor. of the sensors would equip most parts of the room: a Heart in the carpet, a camera detecting variations in skin color in order to calculate the blood volume behind the mirror, bathroom recording the arterial pressure, a radar for analyze the skeleton and the body temperature…

The bath could assess the characteristics ofechoes sent via ultrasonic to estimate this same value as well as to give information concerning the internal tissue movements. Ultimately, the bathroom would be able to collect statistics regarding systems integumentary, endocrine, nervous, muscular and cardiovascular of the patient.

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Passing them on to a health professional could only be beneficial to the individual in question, whose physiological data would come to the eyes of the doctor if he were aggregated for several days rather than viewed in a single session of a few minutes, which provides a larger and more reliable sample to analyze.

Filed in 2015, the patent may well serve Google one day, but only the future will tell whether this innovation will happen in our homes or not.

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