Vital Signs Camera - Philips

Measure your heart rate and breathing rate from a distance, simply by using the camera of your iPad or iPhone!

The first Health & Fitness app to measure heart rate and breathing rate that reached #1 in 75 countries in 2011!

Vital Signs Camera in the news
Business Insider - Philips Vital Signs Camera app is pure genius.
Wired - The app that performs this double-rainbow of technological magic is Philips Vital Signs Camera.
MacNewsWorld - Philips Vital Signs Camera is surprisingly accurate.
Cult of Mac - Its creators have labeled it an “amazing innovation,” and we’re inclined to agree.

This amazing breakthrough technology allows you to measure your vital signs in an easy and unobtrusive way at home*. It measures contactless and can even measure two people at the same time!
• Measures your heart rate from the changes in color of your face
• Measures your breathing rate from the motion of your chest
• Unobtrusive no need to hold or even touch the iPad or iPhone!
• No additional hardware, just uses the camera and advanced video analysis software created by Philips Research.

How it works?
Your heartbeat causes small changes in the color of your face. These changes are not visible to the eye, but with advanced software the iPad or iPhone camera detects these "micro-blushes" to measure your heart rate.

When you breathe, your chest moves up and down. With advanced software, the iPad or iPhone camera tracks the movement of your chest to measure your breathing rate.

More features
+ Use the history graphs to look at heart rate and breathing rate trends
+ Compare your measurements to your daily or hourly average
+ Export your history using iTunes
+ Share screenshots of your results online
+ Two hearts beat as one measure the heart rate of two people at the same time!

Vital Signs Camera app – another amazing innovation by Philips!


User feedback

"This is one of those apps that highlights the science-fiction-made-real feel of the ipad. Seems very accurate too. Feels like magic."
***** Michael Pollock

"you can keep it running in continuous mode for excellent biofeedback in both lowering your breathing rate as well as heart rate. very hard to mess it up if you can just stay relatively still."
***** Markonw 

"Amazing that this is so accurate. The respiration is 100 percent and the pulse rate is /- 1 bmp. That is unbelievable for a something that doesnt even touch you. You have to be well lit but the average lamp works just fine."
***** Imhotep VII 

"Pretty cool app. Wont take the place of a doctor of course, but I think this is the beginning of apps that eventually will."
***** Booboo77777 


* The Vital Signs Camera app is not intended for diagnosis or for clinical measurements, monitoring or decision making. Measurements and statistics are provided for entertainment purposes only.

Note The Vital Signs Camera app has been released for all dual-core iOS devices with a front facing camera (iPad and iPhone). Remote heart rate measurement is not available on single-core iOS devices with a front facing camera (iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G).