Connected bracelets have been appearing on the new technologies market for a few years, offering various services and applications, often related to sport, food or sleep. The health sector is also taking advantage of these jewels of technology to improve the daily lives of patients. This is the case of the Embrace connected bracelet, launched by the Italian startup Empatica, and developed by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to prevent epileptic seizures.
Epilepsy affects nearly 50 million people worldwide, according to theWHO, and between 0.6% and 0.7% of the French population, according to figures from theInserm.
Thanks to its integrated sensors, the Embrace bracelet detects the warning signs of a crisis and warns its user by advising him to take a break. If the crisis still occurs, an alert is launched to warn the patient’s entourage, in order to intervene quickly.
Embrace also collects and analyzes data regarding the wearer’s physical activity, sleep, and stress level. Initially launched on crowdfunding campaign indiegogo, this connected bracelet should be marketed during the year 2015 for a price of 349 dollars, or 295 euros. For the moment, it has not received validation from the Food and Drugs Administration, the American Agency for food and drug products, for its marketing.
