Digital Lifestyle · 2021-02-05

The smartphone as a tool for health diagnosis is now a reality – Digital lifestyle


This article was 1st published on our sister Site, Digital World Native.

That’s right. Due to advances in increasingly powerful sensors & advances in computer vision, Google will use your smartphone’s camera to track tiny physical signals at the pixel level — like chest movements to measure your respiratory rate & subtle changes in the color of your fingers for your heart rate.

From March 2021, Google Fit will allow you to measure your heart rate & respiratory rate just by using your phone’s camera. These features will be available in the Google Fit app for Pixel phones, with plans to expand to more Android devices, says Google.

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