It monitors your heartbeat, oxygenation of
the blood or your weight. The good thing is that you do not have to buy a new
one, you can use yours.
Did you know that we spent an average of 53
days of our life sitting on the toilet defecating? Not to mention the 106 days of
urination.
A group of researchers from the Rochester
Institute of Technology realized that a lot of time is wasted going to the
toilet instead of doing more important things such as taking care for the
health of the person who sits in them. So they decided to create a smart seat
that can be adapted to any toilet so that when we support our legs and part of
our buttocks, we study different health parameters that verify what our state
of health is like. This is explained by Nicholas Conn, founder and CEO of the
company Heart Health Intelligence who is in charge of the project with other
colleagues of the ITR: "This cardiovascular monitoring system is designed
to detect health problems in an early stage, in such a way that The patient can
know in advance what is happening to him / her. The seat is directly enabled by
advanced patented algorithms and captures more than nine clinically relevant
measurements. It incorporates a single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) to measure
the electrical activity of the heart, a photoplethysmograph ( PPG) to measure
the oxygenation of the blood and the localized time of the pulse, a
balistocardiogram (BCG) to measure the mechanical forces associated with the
cardiac cycle and a body weight sensor ".
The good thing is that you do not have to
install a whole new toilet, but you only need to adapt the "smart
cover" that you have at home and connect it to the Internet. The first
experiences performed on 150 patients (38 healthy and 111 heart patients)
showed results as effective as those that could be achieved in a hospital
monitoring. According to the authors, the next step is to demonstrate the
clinical usefulness of this system and test it in a greater number of heart
patients directly at home and access their progress from home.
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