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Sunday 21 June 2015

Currently on the market we can find doznes of applications which monitor health parameters in real-time. They gather data (like pulse, calorie consumption, time of sleep etc.) from sensors and show them on some built-in display or send them wirelessly to mobile phone using for example Bluetooth Smart technology.
However, there is still no available wireless device that could show electrical activity of the heart. Inside doctor’s office we can potentially see only a professional device called - Holter ECG. This thing is attached to a belt or is hung around the neck. Its long cables are connected to the electrodes, which collect electrical signal. The patient has to carry the equipment for 24 hours, then he gives it back to the doctor, who reads measures from the memory card.
As you can probably imagine, this solution is not a particularly convenient one. Considering all these, we hit on an idea to create simple, small device that allows us to see ECG in comfortable way. As we also see a big potential in IoT technology, we also decided to public collected data after all in the cloud.
Two electrodes are enough to get the basic ECG curve. Perhaps you will tell us that we won't achieve as good quality as 12-leads ECG, from those cardiologists can diagnose the most sophisticated disease - you would be right. We create a gadget that allows to see serious things that will alert you: it's time to meet a doctor. More professional equipment may be developed in the future ;)

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