Samsung’s forthcoming Simband, pitched as a common platform for wearable health sensor development, will record and analyze user vital signs in real time. Data will be uploaded directly to the cloud, with out the need for a smartphone.

Simband has multiple sensors, a thin removable battery and a small motherboard. It is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Arm A7 processor and equipped with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios.

It contains the Simband Sensor Module, which can house optical, electrical and physical sensors. Data collected can be forwarded to SAMI (Samsung Architecture for Multimodal Interactions) and used with third party apps.