10-15-2019, 05:40 AM
Thinking about two medical/health applications of such cheap device:
- If this device ends-up being able to do NFC, the Glimp glucose monitoring app community is going to go completely banana over it.
Some glucose monitors (like Freestyle Libre by Abott) only talk over NFC. Currently not all phone have access to NFC for their apps and extremely few smartwatch do.
An opensource smartwatch that does NFC for in the couple dozen-bucks range would be a miracle for these communities:
The PineTime smartwatch could be used to both display current graph/readings on the screen, and relay the data over bluetooth to some larger device (usually done with a smartphone or raspberry pi), all this for less than 50$.
Currently, this needs to be done either with expensive NFC-to-Bluetooth relays that don't even have a screen, or by frankensteining a Sony Smartwatch with a special firmware patch (has all the features, including screen... but isn't in production any more and is difficult to fetch on ebay).
An NFC-enabled PineTime would have as much feature as both (screen, plus nfc-to-bluetooth) while costing a faction of either.
Well of course, that's as long as NFC functionality can be crammed into PineTime without going over-board with final price...
- Does somebody know if the currently announced accelerometer (Bosh BMA421) can be used as a hard fall detector ? That another useful health application of the device.
(In case of fall, if the hearth monitor is still reading pulse (i.e.: still attached to hand) but nobody press "cancel" on the screen (i.e.: owner incapacitated or wounded) -> send alert over Bluetooth, asking the phone to send emergency SMS or other request for help)
(Basically, the kind of function offered by Apple Watch, Samsung Active and countless of over-expensive elderly-targeted gadget, but at a much lower price point. Though no onboard 3G and thus *needs* to rely on smartphone over bluetooth connection for the actual alerting).
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Also, as mentioned by somebody in the comments sections of the wiki: too bad it doesn't use some e-Ink or mirasol technology for even lower-power screen, but well whatever, seem already good enough.
- If this device ends-up being able to do NFC, the Glimp glucose monitoring app community is going to go completely banana over it.
Some glucose monitors (like Freestyle Libre by Abott) only talk over NFC. Currently not all phone have access to NFC for their apps and extremely few smartwatch do.
An opensource smartwatch that does NFC for in the couple dozen-bucks range would be a miracle for these communities:
The PineTime smartwatch could be used to both display current graph/readings on the screen, and relay the data over bluetooth to some larger device (usually done with a smartphone or raspberry pi), all this for less than 50$.
Currently, this needs to be done either with expensive NFC-to-Bluetooth relays that don't even have a screen, or by frankensteining a Sony Smartwatch with a special firmware patch (has all the features, including screen... but isn't in production any more and is difficult to fetch on ebay).
An NFC-enabled PineTime would have as much feature as both (screen, plus nfc-to-bluetooth) while costing a faction of either.
Well of course, that's as long as NFC functionality can be crammed into PineTime without going over-board with final price...
- Does somebody know if the currently announced accelerometer (Bosh BMA421) can be used as a hard fall detector ? That another useful health application of the device.
(In case of fall, if the hearth monitor is still reading pulse (i.e.: still attached to hand) but nobody press "cancel" on the screen (i.e.: owner incapacitated or wounded) -> send alert over Bluetooth, asking the phone to send emergency SMS or other request for help)
(Basically, the kind of function offered by Apple Watch, Samsung Active and countless of over-expensive elderly-targeted gadget, but at a much lower price point. Though no onboard 3G and thus *needs* to rely on smartphone over bluetooth connection for the actual alerting).
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Also, as mentioned by somebody in the comments sections of the wiki: too bad it doesn't use some e-Ink or mirasol technology for even lower-power screen, but well whatever, seem already good enough.