Mitsubishi Electric Develops New Contactless Body Sensor Allowing High-Precision Monitoring of Vital Body Data

Uses radio waves to monitor and track data, will help enhance health and general well-being

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today that it has developed a new type of contactless body data sensor that can detect minute variations in heart rates, respiration, and other vital body indicators with high precision. It will enable the continuous and accurate daily measurement of such data in situations where the use of contact-type sensors, such as smartwatches, may be difficult. The new sensor will help enhance people’s health, security and well-being by facilitating self-management and monitoring of key body indicators, particularly among the elderly.

In recent years, the widespread use of smartwatches and other monitoring devices has led to increasing numbers of people checking their own body data on a daily basis, allowing them to assess their own physical and mental condition for health management purposes. Companies are also increasingly seeing a link between their employees’ health and their productivity levels. There is accordingly growing interest in new solutions that utilize vital body data to allow employees to monitor their physical and mental states, and help companies to provide appropriate working environments for them, as well as identify aspects of these that can be improved.
The effective collection, analysis and utilization of vital body data obtained through daily biosensing is additionally seen as a key means of helping to achieve the Japanese government’s goal of extending healthy life expectancy by more than three years by 2040. The effectiveness of wearable contact-type sensors such as smartwatches may be hampered in certain situations due to issues such as wearer discomfort, skin irritation or the need to ensure the safety of the wearer. As a result, there is growing interest in the use of non-contact sensors capable of measuring vital body indicators with a high degree of accuracy.

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