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January 8, 2020 09:41 am

Linksys Wi-Fi will soon monitor your breathing as well as movement




Linksys Wellness Pods next to a Velop mesh router. | Image: Linksys

Linksys Velop mesh routers can already sense movement inside homes, now they’re adding the ability to monitor the health of human inhabitants with the introduction of new Wellness Pods.


Created in collaboration with AI company Origin Wireless, Wellness Pods work together with Linksys Velop Tri-Band nodes and Linksys Aware software to track breathing patterns and sleep quality, according to Linksys. They can also be used to detect falls of elderly family members. It does all this without the use of wearables or cameras, which could alleviate some privacy concerns.



Linksys is able to detect motion by measuring disruptions in radio wave intensity between at least two Velop nodes caused by a person or animal walking through a room, for...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056418/linksys-wellness-pods-aware-health-date

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