The technology, known as ADAMM Intelligent Asthma Monitoring, is a soft, flexible, waterproof, wearable device, which communicates with a smart phone app and web portal using Bluetooth, WiFi, and cellular connections. It attaches to the upper torso using skin-safe adhesive and tracks precursor symptoms of asthmatic attacks, including cough rate, respiration patterns, heartbeat, and body temperature.

Resource: https://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/09/wearable-iot-device-predicts-asthma-attack-it-happens

ADAMM be used with or without the connected smartphone app and web portal—the wearable itself also provides alerts via vibrations when the user’s symptoms deviate from their individual norm. These same alerts are also sent to the app and web portal where additional analysis is available, and if the user designates, they are sent via text to a caretaker, such as a parent, as a cautious precaution.

Most people ignore when they are coughing, or they may be coughing during the night when they are asleep so they are not cognizant of it. The device collects that information demonstrates that they are deviating from their baseline, and gives them an earlier indication of an asthmatic attack than they normally would have.”

Coughing is a common act and whenever we cough, we tend to ignore it. However, these symptoms might be the warning of an upcoming asthma attack and people do not realise it. Quite a handful of people around me have asthma and whenever they have an attack, they do not know when and why. This device acts like a data collector and tracks the user breathing patterns. Thereby, this allows the user to be prepared for upcoming asthma attacks and to treat it beforehand.

This device provides individual patients with a personalized approach to their asthma management as compared to what works at the population generic-base level.