(Telecompaper) Samsung has unveiled a new project to expand in the healthcare sector with its connected mobile devices. The Samsung Digital Health Initiative, presented at an event in San Francisco by Samsung's Strategy and Innovation Center team, is based on open hardware and software platforms to develop sensors, algorithms and data collection and analysis systems for the health sector. Samsung demonstrated its own first product from the platform, a connected wristband that can be used to track measurements such as heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure. The Korean company is working with the University of California, San Francisco to develop the platform.