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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsLAURENTIA JOHANNA HUIJBREGTS, ACHIM HILGERS, RONALDUS MARIA AARTS
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The present disclosure relates to the fields of medical technology as well as fitness and activity trackers. To provide improved wearing comfort, in particular by reducing skin irritation, a wearable device (10) adapted to be worn by a user (100) is presented. The wearable device comprises a fixation element (12) for fixing the wearable device to the user, a lower side (15) for contacting a skin (101) of the user when worn; and a processing unit (20) adapted to determine a sweat level measure (32) indicative of an amount of sweat accumulated between the lower side (15) of the wearable device and the skin (101) of the user and indicative of an exposure to sweat over time; and to determine a moment in time for ventilating said lower side of the wearable device based on a said sweat level measure (32). The present disclosure further relates to a corresponding system and method.
Wearable device adapted to be worn by a user, the wearable device comprising:
A system System comprising:
A method for operating a wearable device, the wearable device comprising a fixation element for fixing the wearable device to a user, and a lower side for contacting a skin of the user when worn;
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program code means for causing a computer to carry out the steps of determining a sweat level measure indicative of an amount of sweat accumulated between the lower side of a wearable device fixed to a user and the skin of the user and indicative of an exposure to sweat over time;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.