Samsung Announces Bio-Processor for Wearable Devices For Monitoring and Processing, Health And Fitness Data

Samsung has announced a new chip dubbed "SamsungBio-Processor" going to expand its already extensive product family. As the name suggests and as the South Korean company has announced in the press presentation of the product, it is a new type of chip, already in mass production, that is specifically designed to enable the accelerated development of innovative products wearable for Consumers are increasingly intent to monitor their health and fitness on a daily basis.

Samsung believes its bioprocessore is the first chip all-in-one solution for health monitoring that makes use of coprocessors and various sensors to record and process a lot of information without the need for external modules - there are Analog Front Ends, a microcontroller unit (MCU), a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), a digital signal processor (DSP) and a memory eFlash.

"The Bio-processor is particularly innovative because of its incredibly small size," says Samsung. "Compared to the total area of ​​its separate parts, the Bio-processor is only about a quarter of the total combined size, which is ideal for small wearable devices".

To meet the changing needs of consumers and the market, Samsung has created its bio-processor to integrate five AFE for the bioelectrical impedance analysis ( BIA , or the relationship between the amplitude of an alternating current potential and the resulting current amplitude alternating in a conductor biological), the photoplethysmography ( PPG ), the electrocardiogram ( ECG ), skin temperature, and galvanic skin response ( GSR ) in a single chip solution for measuring body fat, skeletal muscle mass , heart rate, skin temperature and the level of stress. Furthermore, the combination of these data can 'be considered for a number of other cases of use.

Potentially this Bio-processor that Samsung will be able to create devices useful to have a general framework - hopefully precise - of your health, something which nowadays does not exist on the market. Recall that the last smartwatch Samsung, the gear S2, as well as that of Apple, Apple Watch, keep track only of the heart rate.

It remains to be seen whether Samsung will hold its Bio-processor exclusive for its wearable devices or carry out commissioned the same chip for its customers. At least initially, is the most 'likely the former, the exclusive.

When you buy the first wearable bio-processor device powered by Samsung? We'll have to wait too long to see these on the market, because Samsung has announced that its new Bio-processor is currently in mass production and will be available in the first half of 2016.