Empatica Health Monitoring Platform components
The Empatica Health Monitoring Platform is an FDA-cleared modular remote health monitoring platform that provides a full-stack product suite to healthcare and research professionals. The platform has different components that enable the continuous collection, streaming, and storage of raw physiological data and digital biomarkers:
Hardware component
- EmbracePlus and its cable charger - a medical wearable that combines PPG, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Temperature, and EDA sensors
Software components
- Care Lab App on a compatible companion device (Android or iOS) - companion app for EmbracePlus, that enables the secure synchronization of raw data and digital biomarkers from EmbracePlus and their transmission to the Empatica Cloud.
- Empatica Cloud - securely stores data for immediate access or through online visualization on the Care Lab Portal
- Care Lab Portal on an internet browser - a web portal to manage participants and monitor digital biomarkers
How the Empatica Health Monitoring Platform works
- EmbracePlus continuously records physiological parameters which are then sent via Bluetooth to the Care Lab App. When EmbracePlus is disconnected from the paired smartphone, EmbracePlus can store up to around36 hours of data in its internal memory. The data will then be transferred automatically as soon as EmbracePlus is re-connected to the smartphone.
- The Care Lab App transmits the data to the Empatica Cloud in 30-minute batches via the companion device’s internet connection (WiFi or cellular data). When an internet connection is not available, data will temporarily be stored on the smartphone’s local memory. The data will then be automatically synced to the cloud as soon as an internet connection is established.
- The collected data is processed and stored in the Empatica cloud.
- In the Care Lab Portal, you can manage and monitor your participants, and visualize some of the digital biomarkers.
- The Care Lab Portal also provides you with your Data Access Keys, which are your credentials for accessing and downloading raw sensor and digital biomarker data from the AWS S3 bucket for further analysis.