A sensor to keep you alive

Monitoring health is not a part-time job. For instance, heart attacks can occur at any time and, in fact, frequently occur when people are just getting up in the morning, before they’ve started their day. Thus, many people may come to see the ams AS7000 biosensor as a lifesaver.

Aimed at wearable devices, the tiny AS7000 biosensor is the first integrated health and fitness sensor module designed to be worn constantly, at rest and when exercising. It incorporates a highly integrated optical sensor module and photoplethysmography (PPG) software to provide heart rate measurements (HRM) and detect heart rate variation (HRV). (PPG is an HRM method that measures pulse rate by sampling light modulated by the blood vessels, which expand and contract as blood pulses through them.) So now we may finally be able to say farewell to those cumbersome, uncomfortable electrocardiogram (ECG) chest straps.