Fierce Healthcare March 17, 2021
Smart speakers are known for playing your favorite music, telling you the weather or reminding you when to get up and take a walk. They also could be an important tool in cardiology.
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a form of contentless monitoring, allowing smart speakers to identity and monitor individual heartbeats using sonar technology. Machine learning (ML) makes this technology possible. The UW researchers published the findings on March 9 in the journal Communications Biology.
Co-senior author Shyam Gollakota, a UW associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, says it’s not detecting heartbeats that is a surprising smart speaker skill but the fact that it can detect irregular heartbeats.
“Regular...
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