Philips launches into smart health connected health!

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Philips has made IFA its big date of the year. After formalizing a new TV and a newcomer in its range of smart lighting, now the Dutch formalizes a comprehensive program in smart health connected health. Called Philips 'Personal Health Programs', it includes 5 smart health connected objects as well as a mobile application.

Philips is ambitious, and it shows. The Healthcare giant has announced a complete suite of 5 smart health connected objects focused on personal well-being, and the monitoring of its physical activity. But unlike its rivals who are generally focused on fitness and fun, Philips really wants to be part of a medical approach. While aesthetics may not be the best, technology probably is – and the commercial strength of the group is likely to allow it to appear quickly across the internet and in specialty network stores.

  • The Philips Health Watch is a smart health connected bracelet that allows you to follow daily physical activity. Incorporating an internally developed heart rate sensor and an accelerometer, it will be able to measure both daytime and nighttime (sleep) activity. While many of the activity trackers currently on the market focus on fitness, Health Watch wants to be on the medical side, with a particularly successful HealthSuite mobile app program. The data recorded by the bracelet is sent by Bluetooth to the smartphone.

  • A Heart Rate which makes it possible to measure the heart rate without going through a laboratory! The device measures both systolic and diastolic blood pressure as well as heart rate. The information can be read in real time on the device screen, or on the mobile application that backs up historical data.

  • A version of this heart rate sensor in the form of a bracelet is also available.

  • Philips also comes with a smart health connected scale, And will compete directly with competitors Withings, Fitbit and Runtastic. This one will measure the weight as well as the fat mass (via a bio-impedance sensor) as well as the BMI. Up to 8 different users will be recognized by the scale, and the data will appear on the mobile app.

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  • A ocular thermometer and smart health connected to measure body temperature for babies, children and adults alike. In less than 2 seconds, the results are displayed.

Regarding now the availability of this complete suite, it will be necessary to wait for the month of October to find it in Germany, and 2016 for the rest of the world. Philips would take a little more time to get all of its solutions approved in the US, especially since it wants to categorize it in the medical section, not fitness.

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