# IFA2015: Philips is interested in your health with smart health connected objects

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Although Philips is well known in the world of ehealth audio, one of its branches has specialized in the health sector, especially for professionals, for almost a century. One of the revelations made at its press conference at the IFA is the launch of a whole range of smart health connected objects for health, whether for individuals or professionals.

Pieter Nota, CEO of the health branch of Philips, indeed recalled during this conference that Philips was present in the various fields of health, designing numerous medical tools for professionals, who monitoring more than 275,000 patients each year.

But one thing is in great demand today: making these devices smart health connected, to facilitate their use and especially the processing of their information.

We discovered last year the Pulseelief, a system of two wireless patches communicating in bluetooth with the phone, as well as the Bluetouch, a patch to place in the lower back.

The goal is essentially to calm certain pains. Thus, on the application, we indicate the painful place, the degree of pain, and the application launches a suitable treatment using electrical pulses via the electrodes:

The outing was postponed a bit, since last year we were told about an outing before Christmas (2014, therefore). The product is available today, but on the German market, such as on Amazon where it can be found for just under € 130. The Pulseelief should then be released in England, then in France in the course of 2016, because everything related to health is highly regulated and slightly delays its release in France.

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Philips On the other hand presented new products: an activity tracker watch, capable of tracking your activity, your sleep, and your heart rate, two blood pressure monitors, a thermometer, and a scale, capable of managing eight profiles. All smart health connected, of course.

To manage them, a unique application dedicated to your health: Philips HealthSuite Health. All the information relating to your health will be entered there, and the system will even be able to give you advice, if for example you sleep poorly, if you gain too much weight, etc. A system which strongly reminds the existing eco system at Withings.

We also have a smart health connected air purifier, specially adapted for people who have allergies, because this purifier will be able to warn you based on pollen and other alerts thanks to its connection. Of course it will adapt its operating mode automatically in order to always breathe healthy air.

In parallel, Philips has developed a range dedicated to young children, such as this air purifier which will fit perfectly in a child's room:

There is also the smart health connected thermometer, and a camera, which will act as a baby monitoring, but also as a night light, while recording the baby's temperature, humidity, and movements / cries.

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The bottle is not smart health connected ? In fact all this revolves around the uGrow application, intended to follow the growth of the baby, and reassure young parents, who often ask themselves a lot of questions about the good health of their newborn (who hasn't run to the ER for anything at all?)

Some data will be collected automatically, such as his temperature, his movements (if he has restless nights, the camera will detect it), the air quality of his room; other data will have to be entered manually, such as the frequency of the bottles and their dosage. This will result in a "timeline" showing everything that happened on the baby's day, and the app, again, will be able to give advice based on the data collected. All this for the good health of the baby and the monitoring of its evolution.

Speaking of babies, another product presented was intended for professionals, to perform ultrasounds (which can also be done for men, moreover, for certain examinations ;-).

The Lumify sends directly what it receives via its ultra sounds to the screen of the tablet:

We are very far from the heavy equipment usually used, and this is of great interest to professionals, who will have a much more sophisticated application for monitoring their patients, moreover:

The Dream Family is a breathing device for sleeping. Some people actually have sleep apnea, and some people die of suffocation because of it, without realizing it. The Dream Family has therefore been designed to be worn comfortably, while monitoring the person's breathing and helping them to breathe if necessary. Also smart health connected to the same smartphone application, it allows you to track your sleep and especially your possible respiratory problems.

Finally, some devices are no longer entirely for health, but for hygiene. So we come back to devices dedicated to individuals, with in particular the smart health connected toothbrush for children, a bit like what we had already seen with Vigilant: the goal is to teach the child to brush his teeth properly.

What could be more fun than a tablet game, the progression of which depends directly on good toothbrushing?

The icing on the cake, this toothbrush is supplied with a whole bunch of stickers so that the child can personalize it according to their tastes.

Finally, even the razor becomes smart health connected, with the new Philips Smart Shaver series 7000!

A little surprising, because on the spot one can wonder what brings the fact of connecting it: Philips assumed that no man has the same skin, and that each razor should be personalized to the skin of each man. Thus, the application allows you to precisely adjust the operating mode of the electric shaver after answering a short questionnaire. The razor then continues to adapt according to the irritation of the skin, so as to ultimately give you a perfect, smooth shave.

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As one can see, Philips is therefore very active in the field of smart health connected health, and its ecosystem is likely to interest a large audience.

But that's not all, since other smart health connected objects have been announced in other areas. We will talk about it in a next article ?

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