The document describes HeartCheck, an unofficial Android app created by Mauro Papa and Maria Palma to continuously monitor heart rate using the Xiaomi Mi Band Pulse activity tracker. Existing Mi Band apps only allow on-demand heart rate checks, so HeartCheck aims to reduce response time for heart attacks by live monitoring heart rate throughout daily activities. Developing the app presented challenges as Xiaomi did not release an official SDK and reliably detecting heart attacks solely from heart rate data can be difficult.

1. Mi Band Pulse
HeartCheck Unofficial App
[Team: Mauro Papa & Maria Palma ]

2. Short Product Overview
Xiaomi Mi Band Pulse is a cheap activity
tracker device which features a HRM (Heart
Rate Monitoring) Sensor.
It’s the most sold wearable device in the
world after Apple Watch and FitBit
[Source:IDC]

3. The Problem
Available android applications for Xiaomi
Mi Band provide On Demand Heart Rate
monitoring. There are no apps that keep
monitoring the user during his daily
activities.

4. The Idea : HeartCheck
Develop an unofficial application (called
HeartCheck) to check heart attacks by live
monitoring the user heart rate.
The GOAL: develop a tool which can reduce
the time needed to manage an heart
attack.

5. Challenges to face
A) No official SDK released by Xiaomi
B) Heart attack can be caused by many
factors. Being able to reliably detect
this event by only using an heart rate
sensor can be very challenging

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