Gregory Kovacs , financing start-ups in the field of medical equipment reported that Electronics manufacturers badly imagine how to collect data about user health . Ideally, manufacturers of portable devices have to work in cooperation with the developers of medical technology. Smart bracelets, for example, can not distinguish between a situation where the person moves on the machine, or jogging. Thus, for a breakthrough in this field must invent new types of sensors, and think carefully about the information collected algorithms.
Buying large companies with an eye on the use of their development in the segment of portable devices - a waste of money, according to Kovacs. According to him, a breakthrough in the field of wearable devices can take only large companies are able to develop a complex ecosystem with advanced algorithms. In this area, there is little dependent on the filling of end user devices - revolution needs to be done at the level of data processing algorithms.
Companies will have to learn to earn on an analysis of information, rather than the end devices. A promising direction Kovac considers the creation of "smart plumbing" that would make the analysis of human excreta and properly handle this information. Even toothbrush can tell a lot about a person's health, but so far it is not endowed with the appropriate sensors.