Wearable Technology as a Source of Data-Generation Tool for Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The world is fascinated to see how technology evolves each passing day. All too soon, there's an emerging technology that is trending around us, and it is no other technology than smart wearable technology. Less attention is paid to the data that our bodies are radiating and communicating to us, but with the timely arrival of wearable sensors, we now have numerous devices that can be tracking and collecting the data that our bodies are radiating. Apart from numerous benefits that we derive from the functions provided by wearable technology such as monitoring of our fitness levels, etc., one other critical importance of wearable technology is helping the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Machine learning thrives on the availability of massive data and wearable technology which forms part of the internet of things (IoT) generates megabytes of data every single day. The data generated by these wearable devices are used as a dataset for the training and learning of machine learning models. Through the analysis of the outcome of these machine learning models, scientific conclusions are made.