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BASIC NEEDS TODAY: SMART HOME, SMART WEARABLE AND HEALTHY FOOD

      


          It is a night 10:00 p.m.  I locked the house doors.  I checked security camera images on my smart phone.  It is all o.k.  I opened another app; switched off all the smart lights in the house and dimmed the hall-light. Then I tapped my smart watch.  It said, "you walked 7.2 km today and burned 2700 calories.  The heart-beat at the moment is 81 per minute.  The resting heart rate is 71 today".  I felt satisfied.  I switched on the "home projector".  It cast a big image on the wall of the hall.  I put on the blue-tooth head phone (I do not want to wake up others).  I begin to watch my favorite serial "Game of throne".  This is not a wild imagination but a reality in many modern Indian homes.  The technology is affordable and accessible to Indians today.

      Out of many smart wearable and devices, smart watch stands prominently today.  Let us explore it deeply so that we can appreciate and exploit the device better.

     First, let us find out how it measures the heart-rate.  At the back of the watch, there are two green LED lights and a photo cell.  When the watch is worn on the wrist, it shines the light on the skin.  Red blood readily absorbs green light.  When the heart beats (pumps out blood), there is a surge of blood flow in the veins and hence more absorption of green light.  When the heart takes 'a bit of rest'  between the beats, there is less flow and less absorption light.  This is how the watch recognizes the heart-beats.  The 'number of beats per minute' is sent to the smart-phone through blue-tooth and the phone sends the data to the internet and the company's servers.  There, the data is interpreted using algorithms(software) and the human-friendly information is sent back to the app on our smart phone.  Then a clear graphical message is displayed on the phone.

      Besides optical sensor, there is a micro accelerometer with a gyroscope which measures our walking, running steps, and sleep pattern.  There is an altimeter.  It measures the height we climbed,  be it a mountain or a staircase.  Some watches measures body temperature also and some have GPS.

      Hence the sensors collect the data and the algorithms interpret them in a user-friendly way.  From the watch and its app, we get the information like, How is the quality of our sleep; How healthy is our heart; what is heart resting-rate; How much calories we burned; How to shed weight; How active we are in a day and so on. So get a smart watch and #GetFitWithFlipkart  .

     WHO's report says, every year around 25 million people meet their end because of cardiovascular diseases.  Hence, it is a wonder, we do not still see activity band on everyone's hand.

      These words, "obesity, diabetes, physical inactivity, blood pressure, sleep patterns, lifestyle diseases",  figure in all the health-reports and articles today.  Hence we need these wearable digital monitors badly.

     Google glasses, smart shoes, smart bracelets and rings, smart clothes and bags, are going to be popular as smart watches in the future.  Surveillance smart camera hooked to the internet is a boon today.  You can watch your home and office from anywhere in the world. (There is a wireless door bell which when pressed by a person,  takes the photo of the person immediately and sends it to the phone of the owner).


      Tomorrow, all the electrical and electronic appliances in our home can be controlled remotely using apps on the phone. We have traveled a long way from stone age to the digital age.  Have a smart, healthy, long and happy digital life. Let us start #SmartHomeRevolution now.

"Swiss watch may be the icon of wealth
But a smart watch is the icon of health".

 "You may have a small home
But you can make it smart".       
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