Electronics manufacturer Intel announced a partnership with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to analyze and monitor patients with Parkinson's disease using wearable technologies.

The aim of the project is to pick-up symptoms and better track patterns while potentially shedding more light on the illness to develop a cure, according to Yahoo! News.

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The plan includes the development of a program that lets patients log any medicine they're taking and record how they're feeling. A new app will monitor numerous activity data that Intel assumes will reach some 1 GB of data per device, per day.

"With this approach, researchers could go from looking at a very small number of data points and burdensome pencil-and-paper patient diaries collected sporadically to analyzing hundreds of readings per second from thousands of patients and attaining a critical mass of data to detect patterns and make new discoveries," Intel said in a blog post that announced the partnership.

Intel as already tested the plan on a smaller scale with nine volunteers for a control group and 16 Parkinson's patients, all of whom were wearing Pebble smartwatches over the test period of four days.

The wearable technology will record data on sleep patterns, tremors, balance and gait at what Intel says is a rate of "more than 300 observations per second."

The project to better monitor and analyze Parkinson's patients is not out of the blue for the electronics giant. Former Intel CEO Andy Grove was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2001 and joined Fox's organization a year later.

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