Health&Sportlab, a spin-out of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (BarcelonaTech) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), is working on a smartphone app that will let the elderly monitor their health status.
Led by Miguel Àngel García, lecturer at BarcelonaTech’s Department of Electronic Engineering, the team has figured out how to use mobile phones to measure physiological data such as physical activity and heart rate variability. García said the team’s first goal was to “achieve a basic objective: to validate algorithms that…
