With the explosion of the wearables market, Samsung developers are constantly looking for ways to offer customers advanced and meaningful health monitoring solutions that seamlessly integrate into our lives.

At the Introducing the Bio-processor: The all-in-one Sensor for Health Monitoring panel, developers got to learn more about the Bio-processor SDK and how they can use it to create the next generation of always-on health monitoring devices.

Led by Senior Director of Research at Samsung Sajid Sadi, the panel focused on the many health-monitoring options developers would have at their disposal through the all-in-one Bio-processor, including sleep monitoring, PPG- and ECG-based heart rate, stress levels, sleep habits and more.  Also making an appearance—in schematic design form—was the S-Patch prototype, the first wearable device that uses the Bio-Processor.

Sadi briefly outlined Samsung’s plans to look beyond the current state of wearable devices and hinted at grander ambitions in terms of things to come on the wellness tracking front.

“We want to take health monitoring to the next level,” said Sadi.

There are challenges ahead that will need to be addressed if advances in this area are truly to be realized. One of those hurdles, Sadi acknowledged, was the idea of getting people to add another chargeable device to their already robust collection.

“The reality is we need to get people used to the idea of wearing another chargeable product on their body,” he admitted.

With a reputation for world-class design and functionality, Samsung is in a good position to clearly demonstrate the utility of our products. Our goal is for people to use them in a way that accommodates their lifestyles and not the other way around. Something we’ve been doing for many years.