Wearable technology: the future will be more beautiful and practical

Release date: 2014-06-03

The online edition of the Atlantic Monthly recently commented that the future of wearable technology is bright, but unlike existing wearable devices that have a cool but very limited functionality, future devices will pay more attention to the product. Function and connotation. The content of that review article is as follows: On a very ordinary day in 1998, statistician David Fairley went to school to pick up his son from school as usual. The streets are full of traffic and rivers. But halfway through, Fayley suddenly felt uncomfortable and dizzy.

 

 

Feile recalled: "Actually, a homeless tramp saw that I was in a bad condition and helped me to go to school. The school people let me lie down and rest for a while."

Feile felt better after a break, but the school insisted that he go to the hospital to see. On the way to the hospital, Feilai’s heart attack.

Fayette moved to the Bay Area a few years ago and worked in the Air Quality Management District. He has been responsible for collecting research information related to people's health status and mortality, especially for people who have long lived in a particulate suspended environment, which may lead to increased mortality, especially cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. At the time, all the research was done by a researcher in London.

Fei Lai said: "I originally thought that the Bay Area is not the same thing as London. London is colder and drier than usual. People there often suffer from respiratory diseases. Frankly, I originally wanted to prove that this researcher is wrong. He re-examined his studies in Santa Clara County, California, and he was shocked by the fact that his findings were almost identical to those of the London researcher.

Since then, several other studies have reached the same conclusions as the results of the Feilai study. It has now been confirmed that the particle size of suspended particles in the air is related to people's mortality. Shortly after the heart attack, Feile also found from other research reports that if the human body is exposed to ultra-fine particulate matter, such as in a busy city, it is likely to cause within one to two hours. Coronary heart attack.

He said: "Of course, there may be other factors that lead to the onset of the disease, but I believe walking on such streets is definitely an important factor in my heart attack. The particles in the air are very small and very uncomfortable. They It can be irritating, gather together to form higher-grained particles or spread out. From the particle ladder in the air on the road, it can be seen that the more prosperous streets, the concentration of ultra-fine particles in the air The higher the situation, the situation is completely different from the other streets that are not too noisy."

Despite this, Fei Lai still goes through this bustling street every day to go to work, pick up children and go home, and this has been the case for many years. He said: "After many years, I gradually realized that I really should change a route and try to avoid the bustling streets."

Even if he was an expert in the field of particulate matter research and personally experienced the effects of particulate matter, Fei Lai adjusted his course of action many years later. This is a fundamental problem that people face when making complex decisions about human health and the urban environment. We don't have to know the information we want, we just need to make the right choice. In other words, we only need to have the right information when making decisions.

Smart wristbands, smart watches, smart clothing and even gas masks with built-in wireless sensors can solve this problem. These devices can quietly collect all kinds of data on the street without revealing the water, and then compare the data with historical data published by government departments, academic research institutes and other research institutes, and then push the appropriate users to the appropriate time. Information, a new generation of wearable devices will provide users with more useful, more effective and more actionable information.

Portable pollution detector

Existing wearable devices range from FitBit to Pebble smart watches, from Google Glass to the upcoming iWatch, which can be divided into two main categories: one that provides information such as Google Glass and various smart watches, and one that collects. Information such as FitBit and Nike Energy wristbands. The next generation of wearable devices hopes to combine these two functions, collect the user's personal data, then analyze the user data against other data sets, and then provide customized information and recommendations for users.

Therefore, taking pollution monitoring as an example, a smart wristband capable of automatically detecting the current environmental pollution level can be developed. If the user walks to an area with a high concentration of ultrafine particles, the smart wristband will emit a vibrating alert or flashing red light. , remind the user to change a route. This is not only good for personal health, but it also raises public awareness of the link between pollution and health.

More and more wearable device companies are beginning to provide data for academic research institutions and government agencies. For example, the above-mentioned intelligent wristband that can detect the degree of environmental pollution can not only remind users of personal attention to environmental pollution, but also help the air pollution management department to formulate various rules and regulations and introduce meaningful policies.

But people are worried that wearable devices may reveal personal privacy and are therefore reluctant to provide data streams to government agencies. At the same time, government officials and developers are working hard to develop systems that protect personal privacy so that they can use anonymous data to make both parties mutually beneficial.

Jonathan Lansey, a data engineer at wearable technology company Quanttus, is developing a smartwatch that detects and analyzes vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature. Like many other companies that are new to the field of wearables, Quanttus is actively pursuing partnerships with academic institutions, and it intends to provide data to academic institutions.

So far, there are not many cases of data for government agencies. There are more obstacles in this area, such as government bureaucracy leading to inefficiency, privacy concerns and data system mismatch.

However, Lancer claims that Quanttus's plan is to provide users' data to academic research institutions to help them conduct peer-reviewed research and then provide them to government agencies for reference in policy making.

Steve Jungmann, vice president of product management at Quanttus, said: "I think we will make a huge contribution in this area; we will be doing business in this area, but there are also factors that benefit society." In addition to the data, the company will invest a large amount of equipment for various studies. He said: "We are at the door of MIT, so we often talk to people in academia, mostly discussing issues related to biological testing, such as air quality, mood, ability to work under pressure, etc."

Talking tree

The goal of most smart city technologies is to liberate humans and reduce the probability of human error. Designers of wearable devices are just the opposite. Their goal is to provide people with the right information at the right time and to integrate them into the smart city network, making them part of the smart city solution. It is a good example to let the public better understand the dangers of air pollution and make corresponding changes to their lives.

Frog Design Group, a global product strategy and designer, was one of the early companies to enter the field of wearable devices. As early as 2002, it designed samples for Motorola. In 2012, the company sent a team of designers to offices around the world to bring back eight different concepts about future wearables, including in the Wearable Technology and Networked Cities report.

About half of these concepts are technologies that benefit the environment. One concept is a smart mask that detects the level of air pollution. It was designed by its Shanghai office and may soon be on the market. Other concepts are still in the research and demonstration phase, but those concepts are also instructive for product companies and government agencies that want to combine civilian goals with wearable technologies.

 

 

For example, Frog's New York team is working to improve the ease of use of public transportation systems. They designed a wristband called Relay, which collects data from the Metropolitan Transit Authority and displays it in real time. So, if you are thinking about whether you are taking a taxi or a subway, Relay can tell you when the subway you want to take will arrive at the subway station you are heading to.

Mayo Nissen, an interactive designer at Frog Design's New York office, said: "This is where you need to use the data to the most needed and useful. Check out the bus you plan to take on your computer before you go out. The time for a car, subway or train is good, but if you can get that data at any time, you can make more flexible decisions when you are out. Isn't that better?"

This type of technology is likely to increase the traffic of the public transport system in smart cities, as they can make citizens feel more convenient and more comfortable.

Other concepts of Frog's research focus on using wearable technology to raise people's environmental awareness. For example, "Tree Voice" is actually a display network, and all the displays that make up the network are attached to the tree. The network now covers all parts of Austin, Texas, and it can show passers-by various environmental factors such as drought, pollution, chemical spills that may affect trees, and a companion app that shows the city's What changes have occurred in the trees at a particular time.

Eric Boam, senior interactive designer at Frog's Austin division, said: "In fact, the environment has been collecting and storing information about weather changes and pollution. This is an area we want to study in depth. If you After sawing a tree, you can see through the tree's annual rings which years have enough rain and which years are dry and water-poor. You can also see when the local environment has started to deteriorate. We hope to store the environment. The information is collected and presented to the world so that people can see these issues more clearly and improve their environment through tangible behavior."

Carlos Elena-Lenz, chief technology strategist at Frog Shanghai, is also working on a similar research project. He is currently working on a wearable apparel product that can detect air. Various changes occur, such as temperature and smoke concentration, and then change their color accordingly. When people walk in the street wearing these costumes, their coats change color according to the surrounding environment. He said: "The information will become people's talks, people can communicate with each other."

Ordinary truth

Like most technological innovations, wearables still need to address some of the obstacles to gain widespread acceptance in society, and even have some side effects. Most people now discuss the advantages or strengths of wearable technology, especially its role in the health care and fitness fields, but the current generation of wearable devices is actually quite limited. For example, the now popular FitBit wristband is made up of two basic accelerometers, a low-power Bluetooth component and a mobile app. The accelerometer measures the wearer's behavior to estimate the amount of calories burned, the distance traveled, the number of steps taken, and the time of sleep. Its altimeter also detects the number of steps on the wearer. But if you are not on the steps, the FitBit wristband can't detect your behavior. It doesn't distinguish between the whole day of rock climbing and the whole day of lying on a lounge chair. Similarly, although many wearable devices claim to detect whether the wearer is sleeping or exercising, their accuracy remains to be improved.

Quanttus's Jiangman said: "Many wearable devices collect data just to collect data. They don't collect associated data or analyze the data. We call it so-what data."

As wearable technology companies learn to talk nonsense and develop more accurate wearables, a variety of powerful sensors are available, which may improve algorithms, improve data analysis, and enable contextualization of data. Wearables are becoming more powerful and useful, but they must be implemented in collaboration with government agencies and academic institutions. So far, for wearable technology companies, integrating public data sets with their own tools is still a very difficult job. Because regional, state, and federal governments, as well as academic institutions, do not want to share their data. This is usually because the data they have is a rather messy set of data collected from an old system. But according to Lansai, this situation has begun to improve. For example, the City of Boston recently launched an open data program that asks local developers which type and format data they want.

“At the end, we will be able to get more people-level data analysis and then analyze the relationship between citizen health and climate data or pollution level data, so we can provide the public with More reliable statistics and recommendations."

Elena Lenze said: "Boston is a good example of doing well in this area. They call the developer community to meet in the city hall to listen to their opinions. For example, before they release the application interface, the two sides revolve around the traffic. The communication and communication of the data continued for about a year. Because they started working with the developers very early, when the data was released, the developer community followed up with a large number of public transportation. System application."

State governments in the states have understood the benefits of sharing data with wearable technology developers, and Boston is not a special case in this regard. Last year, when the federal government launched the open source database project Project Open Data on the web hosting service platform GitHub, President Obama signed an executive order to open the data that supports machine reading as the new standard for government information. Since then, state governments in 50 states have posted 112 open datasets on the site and have been eager to find innovative ways to use that data.

But moving data in the opposite direction is much more difficult to move from a wearable device to a government department's data set. Users are obviously not willing to provide data to government agencies because they are concerned about personal privacy violations. According to a survey commissioned by IT agency Rackspace recently, only 22% of Americans are willing to share their geographic location data with government agencies. 32% of Americans are willing to share their health status data with government agencies or health care providers.

So far, government agencies have used data collected by wearable devices to determine what type of data and application interfaces they should provide to wearable device developers. For example, in the Google Glass Pilot Project in Utah, IT employees in the state government department have been paying attention to which applications are most used, and then based on which data sets and APIs are used by Google Glass’s application developers. Is the most useful.

According to Jonathan Collins, chief analyst of wearable technology at ABI Research, a market research and market intelligence firm in New York City, shipments of global wearables will reach 42 million units this year in the healthcare sector. Collins said that while millions of people are now tracking their own health and fitness data, and most health care providers are interested in acquiring and using that data in some way, they have always been concerned about privacy concerns and electronics. The privacy of the medical record is difficult to achieve. “If you automate the collection of health data, you must have a safe place to store data and integrate it with other medical records. To achieve that goal, electronic medical records are key,” he said. It is often the culprit that limits the promotion of such wearable devices."

As data sources continue to grow, concerns about how data is collected and shared will become more and more important. Although every wearable technology company quickly came out to explain that the data would be anonymous and that the cloud service that stores the data is also very secure, it is not difficult to imagine that the increase in data accuracy is likely to drive insurance. The company raises premiums, and government agencies and other companies are also more unscrupulous in peeking at consumers.

From cool devices to aggressive platforms

In addition to the availability and accuracy of data, wearable technology companies face a more fundamental problem, which is commercial feasibility. Wearable technology has been in the healthcare industry for many years and has been successful, and the pedometer is a good example. Although wearable technology companies claim that they have invested billions of dollars in this area, in the highly competitive consumer electronics arena, some of the existing equipment will not be economically viable even if some equipment will be available next year. Sex test.

However, while individual wearable devices may not survive, the overall wearable device market will not slow down in the short term. If, as future experts predict, we will carry 4 to 6 smart devices with us in the not too distant future, then it will certainly be better to include a wearable device that is good for our health and environment.

Nissen said: "Now, the focus of people's attention is whether the appearance of the device is cool and fashionable. If wearable technology can one day become a technology that has a real impact on people's daily lives and benefits people, then it is even better. When the device is no longer fragrant, the large device is represented.

With regard to what wearable technology can do, to what extent wearable technology will be incorporated into the smart city's fiber-optic network, we may only know a little about it.

Baum said: "One of the ultimate goals is that any kind of wearable technology can be built as a platform, just like a PC. We don't know what we can get from it, but once these devices and technologies become everyday Common things in life, and become stable and strong enough, they can achieve great cause."

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