The Google Pixel software seems to have no limits and as we have known on other previous occasions, a new update wants to bring to these terminals a possibility that seemed limited to activity bracelets, such as the popular Mi Band 5. Without anything else than the mobile camera, smartphones created by Google will be able to measure heart rate .
In other countries such as China, Xiaomi has already begun to develop a similar technology although in this case the mechanism is different. Xiaomi chooses to place the finger on the smartphone camera, meanwhile the Google Pixel will measure the heart rate just by placing the camera in front of us, which could seem to record a video. Two methods that we hope will not present problems to measure the pulsations as it has happened with some activity bracelets.
Heart rate on Pixels and more Android coming soon
This announcement was made at The Check Up event, where members of Google Health and medical professionals discussed topics related to health and well-being that we find more and more often on smartphones. To get the option with which the Google Pixel measures heart rate , you will only have to access Google Fit from the Pixel phones once updated and use the rear camera of the device to position ourselves in front of it correctly.
In the images as we can see, the mobile phone will give us the instructions to follow so that the measurement works correctly. You will have to show both the face and the upper part of the torso so that the phone, based on the movements produced by breathing, determines the heart rate . But it will not only be a possibility in the Google Pixel, as the possibility of it reaching other Android smartphones has also been mentioned.
Will this measurement be reliable?
Until we can prove it, it is difficult to determine, although Google has already mentioned and anticipates that this technology takes into account the color changes in the skin as it is an indication in the variation of the heart rate. Jiening Zhan, technical chief of Google Health, also mentioned that from the tests carried out, the measurement of the heart rate of the Google Pixel has a pressure of 2% . In terms of software, few are able to overshadow Google and if this technology finally makes us forget the Mi Band 5, it will be something very important.
Likewise, we must remember that Google bought Fitbit and for that reason it has begun to insert more for the health of users. Everything indicates that it will not be the only possibility focused on health that the Google Pixel integrate and seeing this technology, who knows what they can surprise us with.
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