Wearables are hot these days. One might say it is a true revolution. We at APEX R&D are entering that wearables revolution as well, through Oracle Application Express. During this presentation, learn about the APEX R&D project and features of the research, including the Apple Watch. Wouldn't it be great to facilitate the work that people do in such a manner that they could do more other important things?

1. Dimitri Gielis
APEX Wearables
www.apexRnD.be
dgielis.blogspot.com
@dgielis
dgielis@apexRnD.be

2. Dimitri Gielis
❖ Founder & CEO of APEX R&D
❖ 17+ years of Oracle Experience (OCP & APEX Certified)
❖ Oracle ACE Director
❖ “APEX Developer of the year 2009” by Oracle Magazine
❖ Presenter at Oracle Conferences (OOW, ODTUG, OGh, UKOUG, …)

3. http://dgielis.blogspot.com @dgielis

5. Wearables?

6. http://tweakyourbiz.com

7. APEX and Wearables?

8. Capture
data
View
data

9. How we started

10. Research the market

11. Feature Comparison
!
Microso(!Band!
!
Apple!Watch!
Motorola!
Moto!360!
Samsung!Gear!
Simband( Fit( S(
Heart!rate! x( x( x( x( x(
Blood!Pressure! x(
UV! x( x(
Gyroscope! x( x( x( x(
Skin!
Temperature!
x( x(
Accelerometer! x( x( x( x( x(
Step!Pace! x( x( x( x( x(
Galvanic!Skin!
Response!
x( x(
Ambient!Light! x( x( x(
Blood!data!
(oxygen!levels!
and!blood!flow)!
x(

12. SDKs
❖ Android Wear & Apple Watch:
❖ SDK released
❖ Full applications
❖ Microsoft Band:
❖ SDK Preview
❖ Only pushing notifications
❖ Reading sensor data

13. Design choices
❖ Avoid prompting to use phone
❖ Avoid keyboard input
❖ Short battery life
❖ Sensors (capturing – passive/active)
❖ Small screen of device (wearable)
❖ Different interactions (voice, one tab, …)

14. Architecture
Smartphone
Wearable
Send%no'fica'ons%
Update%'le%
Sensor%data%H"pRequest*
REST*Post,*Put,*Get,*Delete*
H"pResponse*
Future&?&

15. Flow of app

16. Wearable ———> APEX

17. Read data from sensors

18. Read data from sensors
Sensor'data'

19. Read data from sensors

20. Upload data
REST%Post,%Put%

21. Upload data - Device

22. Upload data - REST

23. Sensor data in APEX

24. Reading JSON in the Database
❖ select statement
❖ json_value
❖ json_table
CREATE TABLE ssn_json
(id NUMBER GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY NOT NULL,
date_loaded DATE,
json_document CLOB
CONSTRAINT ensure_json CHECK (json_document IS JSON));

25. Data analysis and Reporting
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75
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26. APEX ———> Wearable

27. Data in APEX

28. Retrieve Data
REST%Get%

29. Medication Reminder

30. Send data to wearable
Send%no'fica'ons%
Update%'le%

31. Medication Reminder
Tile
Looks
like
a
pill
Unread
no6fica6ons
No6fica6on
No6fy,
alert
Reminder
(late)

32. Lessons Learned

33. Wearables challenges
❖ Wearables are costly (as you need a smartphone)
❖ minimum 300 USD combines purchase
❖ New technology (SDK new and still evolving)
❖ When no internet, low battery, …
❖ Privacy, Security and Compliance challenges

34. Interesting to combine with APEX
❖ REST Webservices
❖ JSON in the database
❖ Native code language of smartphone / wearable

35. Q&A
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@dgielis
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