Google X, Google's advanced research division, unveiled on Tuesday about a health-tracking wristband. The medical wristband can provide data for patients’ vital signs. It can measure the wearer’s pulse, heartbeat, and skin temperature and activity level.

The device can monitor the patient’s behavior outside the hospital setting. The band can also quantify environmental factors such as light exposure and noise levels.

As per the PC World, the wristband looks like a smartwatch with a square display. Google spokesperson Jacquelyn Miller said the company is working with its research partners to know whether a constant set of data can prove helpful for doctors to treat diseases better and come up good treatments.

Millers affirmed that it may take many years before it can be measured how useful the device is. It shall be noted that the device is not consumer purpose and is meant for medical setting.

Andy Conrad, head of the life sciences team at Google, said, “Our intended use is for this to become a medical device that's prescribed to patients or used for clinical trials”.

This summer, Google will start testing the band’s effectiveness on patients. Other projects that the Google X laboratory takes include driverless cars and delivery drones. In health section, they have developed a contact lens equipped with a microchip that can read blood sugar levels of diabetics.