A user opens a car door with Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Watch 5 smartwatch, Wednesday. Courtesy of Samsung Electronics

By Baek Byung-yeul

Samsung Electronics is set to showcase its software development tool that enhances users' health, wellness and safety at the Samsung Developer Conference 2022 (SDC22) event, the company said, Wednesday.

The developers' tools announced at this year's event, which is held in San Francisco on Wednesday (local U.S. time), included the Samsung Privileged Health SDK program for select partners, the Fall Detection API to support user safety, Samsung's new end-to-end research solution for educational, clinical and healthcare programmers, as well as ongoing opportunities for partners with Health Connect.

"Samsung's health foundation is rooted in our advanced hardware and sensor technology and is bolstered by our open ecosystem and collaborative approach," Yang Tae-jong, executive vice president and the head of Health R&D Team at Mobile eXperience (MX) Business, said.

"That is why I am excited to announce expanded developer tools, APIs and partner offerings that allow third-party experts, research centers and universities to advance wearable tracking and insight capabilities for better health, wellness and safety," Yang added.

Samsung is collaborating with industry-leading companies such as Tobii and Harman to develop personalized health services for driving situations.

Tobii is a global leader in eye-tracking and attention computing that develops software to monitor drowsiness. Samsung said its Privileged Health SDK enables Tobii to sense a person's real-time heart rate captured by Galaxy Watch sensors and process them to determine the drowsiness level of the user.

With Harman, a leader in connected car, audio and internet of things (IoT) technologies, Samsung recently introduced Ready Care, an in-vehicle sensing and tailored solution for driver safety and comfort. In addition to distraction, fatigue and vital sign sensing, users can allow Ready Care to measure their cognitive load and stress level and can provide suggestions for alternative routes to lower a driver's stress.

Samsung also introduces a new API that offers adjustable sensitivity for fall detection. Developers can develop a fall detection service for the Galaxy Watch that detects users' falls or stumbles by combining various sensor technologies, including an accelerometer and gyroscope.

The company will also strengthen its cooperation with Google. The Health Connect service, announced in collaboration with Google at the early of this year, offers developers a single set of APIs enabling the seamless creation of new fitness and health experiences. Currently available in beta, Health Connect offers users centralized privacy controls that make it easy to give permission to the health and fitness apps they want to share their on-device data with.