Hyderabad:It is possible to use our smartphones without any other wearables to accurately extract vital parameters, such as heartbeat rate and stress level, claims a new study.
The accelerometers inside a smartphone can be used to acquire a signal associated with mechanical cardiac activity, generated by the heart's vibrations at every beat, which can be felt by simply placing the telephone on particular parts of the body, said the study published in the journal sensors.
In the study, the research team led by Professor Enrico Caiani from Politecnico di Milano in Italy focused on the positioning of the smartphone on the abdomen, at the belly button, in a prone position, before getting out of bed in the morning.
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