Kii, the leading Internet of Things (IoT) cloud platform provider, has announced a strategic collaboration with
Kyocera Corporation (Kyocera)
to develop a cloud-based healthcare monitoring service and smart device
combination called 'Daily Support'. Kyocera selected Kii as a cloud
partner because of the wide variety of features suitable for its
business model and global deployment availability.
Daily Support features an 11-gram wearable device created by Kyocera
called 'TSUC' that measures step counts, calorie consumption and status
detection differentiations, which determine the variances between
walking or running on flat surfaces and stairs - as opposed to vehicles
such as a bicycle or car or riding an elevator vs. an escalator. By
collaborating with Kii, TSUC can easily connect to the cloud for user
calorie and activity data monitoring. It is designed specifically for
company employees, health insurance and healthcare service providers.
Daily Support's core user capabilities include:
- Measuring the amount of daily activity, as well as other detailed data
points on activity, sleep, visceral fat and calorie consumption when
worn by users
- Automatically uploading the data to the user's smartphone, allowing for effortless monitoring of lifestyle-related data
- Collecting data on the amount of activity, sleep, visceral fat and calorie consumption via an app
- Monitoring conditions through graphs and figures displayed in the app
- Unique ranking and point system among users
- Observing the activities and data of the service, users on the Web
site and send messages individually to promote better habits, as well as
send group messages to users with similar tendencies
- Visualising activity by the device, as it can measure calories when a
user takes a picture of a meal, and monitor sleep, and visualise
internal fat via a new, proprietary technology.
"Partnering with a world renowned brand like Kyocera to launch a smart
healthcare device and service that helps users to lead a healthier
lifestyle is a double win for Kii," said Masanari Arai, CEO of Kii. "We
will continue to bring the IoT to mainstream audiences across the globe
by collaborating with other world class technology companies to help
millions of consumers improve their health and daily lives."
Kyocera leverages user, device and data management, and analytics on Kii
Cloud to analyse data and provide information to each end user. Kyocera
launched
Daily Support in collaboration with the Association for Preventive Medicine of Japan in Autumn 2015.