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Samsung unveiled a new digital health technology platform on Wednesday that uses sensors to track a range of body functions such as heart rate and blood pressure.

Unveiled at an event in San Francisco the new platform dubbed « Simband » does not include any commercial products, but Samsung demonstrated how it might work with a wristband.

The South Korean electronics giant showed how a device can track measurements such as heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure and collect data from a variety of sources to help consumers better understand what is happening with their health.

Simband will work in tandem with a cloud-based open software platform called SAMI which securely stores data and can provide better insights into health issues.

« The combination of Simband-designed sensor technologies and algorithms and SAMI-based software will take individual understanding of the body to a new level, » the company said in a statement.

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