This AI-powered Smart Band will give alert of COVID-19 symptoms

Chennai:Lunched a week ago, Indian Tech Startup Muse Wearables Artificial Intelligence-powered Personal Wellness Smart Band equipped with a skin temperature sensor and 'context-aware' activity tracking helps a person to decode the symptoms of Novel coronavirus

Called 'Muse Cue,' this made-in-India device could detect silent hypoxia at an early stage and has an Intelligent 'cough analysis' tool to predict and alert users in advance of the onset of COVID-19 symptoms.

Launched in a virtual event, 'Muse Cue' is the ideal smart wearable to manage personal fitness and monitor vitals including SPo2 (oxygen saturation) and heart rate. Its AI-infused technology coudl accurately measure and raise alerts. 

The Muse Care Platform will enable digital consultations with the doctors.With Muse Cue, the IIT-Madras-incubated Start-up Muse Wearables has taken personal wellness assistance to a 

new level. 

Muse Health app enables a user to be proactive in case of any vitals going off baseline values and with one click, it could connect the user to a specialist. 

A IIT-M release said unlike existing tele-consulting, the health care professional assigned to the user by Muse Care will have real-time access to the body vitals and can provide necessary 

medical guidance accordingly.

Talking to the media, Muse Cue CEO and Co-Founder Sai Prasanth said "by observing COVID-19 positive patients, we found that the resting heart rate, heart rate variability and 

respiratory rate act as key indicators of the infection.''

About 20 per cent of COVID-19 cases could be detected before the symptoms appear. The Muse Cue Smart Band could detect in advance of one to three days before the onset of COVID-19 symptoms, like high body temperature or low Oxygen levels, and notifies 

the user.(UNI)