Part of the Elonga service is a monitoring bracelet that measures the pulse, sends the data to the server of the service operator and evaluates them. It will then provide the user with information about the current state of their body and recommend suitable physical activities.
Unlike smart watches and fitness bracelets, you don’t wear the Elonga bracelet all day, but you put it on in the morning right after waking up. It is measured on the forearm on the inside of the hand below the elbow. The measurement takes approximately three minutes, to be more precise, the system needs to measure 150 heartbeats to evaluate the state of your organism. Then you can take the bracelet off your hand. The goal of the service is to improve the quality of life and vitality, even in old age. An added value compared to the aforementioned wearable devices is that the service uses advanced heart rate variability (HRV) analysis. Not only the pulse frequency is measured, but the overall course of the pulse, and spectral analysis is applied to the measured signal. HRV makes it possible to assess the level of stress and the overall state of the nervous system by measuring and evaluating heart rate variability.
In it, two branches work against each other – sympathetic and parasympathetic, which influence the state and activities of the organism. In layman’s terms, we could compare the sympathetic system, which speeds up our reactions, to the gas pedal in a car, and the parasympathetic system, which allows us to relax, to the brake. Depending on how the brain evaluates the current situation, our body reacts with accelerated activity, or we try to rest. The prevalence of activity gradually deviates our body from the interval of balance: our heart rate, pressure increases, we have headaches, we have back pain, digestive problems, possibly anxiety or depression, we do not sleep… You guessed it, these are the symptoms of an emerging and increasingly rapidly progressing burnout syndrome . Of course, we cannot compare the measurement with the Elonga service bracelet to a professional medical examination, but it will give certain more or less accurate results.
The measurement should be taken after waking up lying in bed, because then your stress level is not affected by external circumstances. Based on the evaluation of the current state of the organism, the mobile application of the service will show you the state of stress, regeneration and the readiness parameter, which indicates the state of readiness of your organism for physical activities. The current state of your organism is also displayed in the form of a descriptive text. You can also view the time course in the form of graphs. It then offers you the most suitable physical activities for you, assuming that you implement them, and monitors the improvement. Of course, age, health and physical condition are taken into account when choosing activities.
Source: www.nextech.sk
