Valencell is a company best known for creating optical heart rate sensors in the realm of fitness technology and this year at CES, it unveils a new progressive technology. It introduces a new fingertip monitor that breaches a ‘cuffless’ approach to blood pressure monitoring, which is often measured by an inflating sleeve around the arm.
The new technology is a fingertip clip and has yet to be named. Valencell did note that is uses PPG sensors to measure blood flower patterns. This data is then transferred into an algorithm that calculates the overall movement against the dataset that is powered by 7,000 patient records. From this, it is compared against the users’ age, gender, height, and weight to determine a blood pressure measurement.
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