Asthma patients may soon do away with their inhalers as researchers including one of Indian origin have developed an integrated wearable system that monitors a user's environment heart rate and other physical attributes with the goal of predicting and preventing asthma attacks. We have tested the system in the benchtop and on a limited number of human subjects for proof of concept demonstration and have confirmed that all of the sensors work and that the system accurately compiles the data said study co-author Veena Misra professor at North Carolina State University in the US. The system called the Health and