Author: Zhou Yuan/Wall Street News

Smart wearables/terminals seem to be popular?

On August 28, Huawei launched the Xuanji sensing system. Prior to that, Apple and Samsung were simultaneously “eyeing” the smart ring.

The top three global electronics consumers are all the same. They are all expanding the field of smart wearable devices. What are their intentions?

On August 28, Huawei Sports Health launched its core technology brand, HUAWEI TruSense System (HUAWEI TruSense System), marking another innovation in smart wearable devices. Through technological innovation and brand upgrades, Huawei brings users a more accurate and scientific sports and health experience.

According to official information from Huawei, Huawei has 11 years of experience in the field of smart wearables. The total number of products shipped has exceeded 0.15 billion, and registered users of sports and health apps have exceeded 0.52 billion. Also, according to IDC data, in the first quarter of 2024, Huawei shipped the most wearable wrist devices in the world and led the Chinese market for five consecutive years.

The Huawei Xuanji sensing system has six major characteristics: accurate, comprehensive, fast, flexible, open and extended. Based on Huawei's continuous investment in basic research on optics, electronics, materials, etc., the Xuanji sensing system has achieved higher accuracy and speed in monitoring physical signature data.

The system is equipped with an ultra-sensing module to upgrade the three major technologies of multi-channel optical path architecture, multi-optical path differentiation design, and ultra-insulating glass process to achieve high accuracy in monitoring basic health indicators such as heart rate, blood oxygen, and respiratory rate, and can maintain data accuracy even in complex environments.

In addition, the Xuanji sensing system has expanded the scope of testing, covering more than 60 health indicators such as cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, and endocrine, and supports monitoring of multiple health systems. Through heart rate data and autonomic nervous sequence decomposition algorithms, the system can evaluate the user's emotional state and stress values.

Achieving “accurate” health monitoring with smart wearable devices is not only a basic requirement, but also a difficult standard to meet. According to Huawei's official disclosure, the heart rate monitoring accuracy of the Xuanji sensing system exceeds 98% (blood oxygen measurement is achieved within 15 seconds, and the error is less than 2%), which is close to the medical level.

What do you mean by flexibility, openness, and expandability?

Huawei continues to optimize and upgrade sensor modules, detection algorithms, and big data models. As a result, the Huawei Xuanji sensing system can adapt to different health management requirements. These technological efforts have “conquered” more than 150 institutions around the world. Together with Huawei, these institutions are jointly promoting innovative research on telemedicine and family health management.

At the same time, the Huawei Xuanji sensing system can adapt to various health scenarios, such as at home, in the office, at the gym, or outdoors (outdoors). Users can obtain 13 health data such as heart rate, blood oxygen, and body temperature within 60 seconds through a wearable device equipped with this system with a one-click micro physical examination function.

Huawei officially revealed that a new wearable product equipped with the Xuanji sensing system will be released in September this year.

As can be seen from Huawei's description of the Xuanji sensing system, Huawei has taken comprehensive health management as the driving direction for smart wearable terminals.

In the future, all of Huawei's wearable smart devices will be technically empowered through the Xuanji sensing system. This is equivalent to using the “Qiankun Smart Driving” system to give Hongmeng Smart Select's models an intelligent soul.

Similar to Huawei's “slightly similar to what the hero sees,” Apple has also recently set its sights on smart wearables.

Recently, according to the latest list published by the US Trademark and Patent Office, Apple obtained a smart ring patent to explore smart ring tracking the health and physiology data of the wearer.

Apple's patent description states that the smart ring can interact with devices such as Vision Pro headsets, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs, and can control smart home devices.

Samsung is also doing this. At the 2024 Mobile World Congress (MWC 2024), Samsung launched the new “Galaxy Ring” smart ring of the year.

Galaxy Ring also focuses its main technical performance on monitoring various health data such as sleep quality tracking users' heart rate, blood oxygen, steps, and body temperature measurements.

The smart ring that Apple and Samsung Electronics plan to launch both focus on intelligent interaction and individual health management; while the Xuanji sensing system launched by Huawei also emphasizes user health management performance.

Does this mean that the branch of the IoT field — smart wearable devices — will become a new frontier for personal health management?