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In the fast paced world we live in, the only constant is the amount of stress we take in every day. Extended hours at work does nothing in helping to alleviate the stress that builds up over time. With the advent of technology in the form of wearables, it is quite literally possible to understand your health now. Through different sensors, your basic biometric indexes can be measured. Applications these days can help in understanding different symptoms and conditions. Biobeats believes it can use the data that the wearables receive to glean insights from it.

Hear and Now application

Biobeats has created a new venture in the name of Hear and Now. The application is projected to be a stress-reliever. It takes in data from the wearable and processes it through a home-built artificial intelligence platform. Biobeats plans to introduce this app to both the consumer and the corporate wellness market.

Multinational corporations are increasingly interested in understanding the regular health concerns of their employees. Nearly all the employees are covered under the corporate insurance program. It is in the interest of the company to make sure it understands the health of its employees. This is to prevent them from getting ill through some avoidable cause. Preventive healthcare through wearable technology is an effective solution to the issue.

Apart from regular physical illness, the mental health of the employees needs to be checked through psychiatrists. Biobeats intends to replace such clinical visits by real-time monitoring through their application. Through existing hardware devices like smartphones and wearables, Biobeats plans to gather biometric data. It then proceeds to create customized health programs for the person based on his stress levels.

The Biobeats advantage

For corporations, Biobeats can provide insights on their employees to the HR department. This could, in turn, help them to allocate work and responsibility based on the employee’s mental health and well-being. This directly corresponds to the productivity and efficiency on the work floor. Biobeats is currently running trials with major U.S and U.K companies.

What Biobeats does better than its competitors is the way it uses AI to understand biometric pulses. This is unlike the conventional questionnaire results which are present in the market right now. It primarily uses heart rate and skin conductance along with monitoring movement and behavior. Using this data, it can understand if the stress levels of a person and can warn if he nears fatigue or burns out.

Biobeats then instructs the person to master the technique of Deep Breathing, which is scientifically proven to be a stress buster. Over time, it also measures progress and the reduction in stress levels through the technique. The AI system can perceive patterns in the data and can devise new programs for creating better progress. Currently, Biobeats has raised $2.28 million funding from a round led by White Cloud Capital. The Hear and Now is present on the iTunes store.

Original article: Biobeats, your AI pocket psychiatrist at Artificial Intelligence in Business / Machian Future