Check out this marvelous device, the wristband ambulatory blood pressure monitor. Academics are already strongly recommending 24 ambulatory blood pressure to replace the single blood pressure measured by a traditional arm cuff, so it's likely that all future blood pressure monitors will be of this wearable shape. Generally blood pressure monitors are able to measure heart rate, as for blood oxygen, you need to use pulseoximeter to measure. This type of device is originally very small, it is easy to make a wearable device. The problem is that the clinical significance of ambulatory oximetry is not very clear. No one cares, and it's useless to record it!
Another health indicator that is often measured by wearables is the electrocardiogram (ECG), which is usually connected wirelessly to a cell phone. The handsome guy below shows off one such device.
Many of the recently released new smart wearable devices support the blood oxygen detection function, AppleWatchSeries6 smartwatch, Glory Watch GSPro, Glory Watch ES all support the blood oxygen detection function, and the AmazfitGTR2 and GTS2 released on September 22nd, vivoWATCH also support the blood oxygen detection function. What exactly is the use of the increasingly common blood oxygen test? What does this indicator represent? Let's find out.
How important is oxygen saturation?
Cells in the body depend on oxygen to survive, and the oxygen that enters the body through the respiratory system binds to hemoglobin and is delivered to various organs. Oxygen saturation is a measure of the percentage of hemoglobin that is bound to oxygen. Therefore, oxygen saturation is a key indicator of health, and this parameter allows you to know how much oxygen is in the body's blood.
Generally, the normal oxygen saturation level is between 95% and 100%. If the blood oxygen saturation is below 90 percent, it can be considered as low blood oxygen. When blood oxygen saturation is too low, it also means that there will be a lack of oxygen, which can affect the central nervous system, liver, kidneys and other vital organs. Therefore, blood oxygen saturation is an important indicator, and the measured data can assist in determining current health conditions.
While the just released AppleWatchSeries6 is the first time to add the blood oxygen detection function, but before that there are also a lot of smart devices have been supported by the blood oxygen detection function. huaweiwatchgt2 smart watch, glory bracelet 5, some samsung cell phones and so on support the blood oxygen detection function, so the blood oxygen detection function on the smart devices is not a new thing.
These smart wearable devices supporting blood oxygen detection are generally through the light-emitting diode releases a beam of light of different wavelengths, the use of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin on the different wavelengths of the difference between the absorption rate of the beam, you can determine the percentage of oxygen-carrying hemoglobin, which is also known as detection of blood oxygen saturation.
The just released AppleWatchSeries6 also detects blood oxygen saturation in a similar way, according to Apple, AppleWatchSeries6 is equipped with a brand new blood oxygen sensor, which consists of four groups of LED light clusters and four photodiodes, and it will irradiate the blood vessels with different light, and at the same time, it will measure the amount of light that is reflected back to it, and collocate with the Blood Oxygen APP It will be able to calculate the oxygen content, which is relatively simple to use in practice.
Application scenarios for oxygen saturation testing
Because oxygen saturation can be detected anytime, anywhere through smart wearable devices, there are a wide range of application scenarios for oxygen testing.
The oxygen saturation detection function can assist in determining the state of sleep breathing. For example, intermittent pauses in breathing may occur during sleep, which may cause insufficient oxygen supply. The continuous oximetry detection can record the oxygen saturation data during sleep, and the data can be used to analyze whether there is a state of hypoxia during sleep, so as to judge the state of sleep health.
Additionally like some people who often work overtime, can also through the blood oxygen saturation detection function to assist in judging the current state, if the low blood oxygen saturation need to hurry to take a break, so as to be more friendly to the health of the body.
The Oxygen saturation detection function not only allows you to keep track of your body's condition in daily life, but also plays a better role in supporting your health in some special scenarios. For example, in outdoor extreme mountaineering and other sports scenarios, you can always know your body condition through the blood oxygen saturation, and determine whether you need to rest or adjust the intensity of the exercise, so as to better cope with various different sports scenarios.
The general APP on the phone can synchronize the health data of the smart wearable device, so even if you go out, as long as you equip your parents with a smart wearable device, you can learn about your parents' blood oxygen data, as well as some other health data and so on through remote synchronized data, so as to let your care add more details.
Summary
Blood oxygen saturation is an important indicator of physical health, smart wearable devices to add blood oxygen detection function can make the test become more comprehensive, can be combined with a variety of other test data, can be more clear, more detailed understanding of their own physical condition, can play a greater reference significance. Smart wearable devices that are constantly upgraded around health monitoring can make it easier for ordinary people to understand their own physical condition and add an extra layer of protection.
Now many smart wearable devices support the blood oxygen detection function, and it is very convenient to measure blood oxygen saturation. But if you want to make the oxygen detection function play a bigger role, in fact, it is not easy. For example, the accuracy of oximetry detection is also critical, as it relates to the reliability of the data, and of course most smart wearable devices currently provide data for reference only. In addition, if you want to realize continuous blood oxygen detection, the endurance requirements for smart wearable devices will also be higher, all of which will directly affect the experience of the blood oxygen detection function.
What's the use of smart wearable's exercise monitoring function?
The exercise monitoring function of smart wearable can help users analyze the size of their own exercise, the effect of exercise and the body's cardiorespiratory function, and in this way to appropriately adjust or modify the exercise plan, which is conducive to physical health. Microchip technology independent research and development of heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen, blood sugar and other health functions algorithms applied to smart wearable devices, to bring users a full range of multi-dimensional sports health data monitoring, Microchip also provides a wealth of sports and fitness scenarios application, and accurate fitness guidance supervision, so that users can really get the experience of healthy exercise.
What is a smart bracelet? How to track human health data
What is a smart smart bracelet? A bracelet is a wearable smart device, smart bracelets usually help users record real-time data such as exercise, sleep and diet in daily life, and synchronize these data with iOS or Android devices, which serves to guide a healthy life through data.
In layman's terms, a smart bracelet is a wearable device, similar in appearance to a wristband. It can realize health functions such as heart rate measurement, pedometer, sleep quality, diet, etc., and it can also be combined with smartphones to realize a variety of functional extensions. The more popular smart bracelets available on the market now are Jawbone
Up2, Gudong bracelet, FitbitFlex and so on.
How do you actually track human health data? To put it bluntly, the purpose of the smart bracelet is more convenient for people to carry out data collection, the health data of their own body (like exercise, sleep, diet data, etc.), through such a device is collected, but also allows us to more intuitive understanding of their own health status, so as to develop good healthy living habits.
Smart bracelet is also the same, not equipped with such a device does not matter, for now all day and night sitting in the office, work pressure, sleep is not good, exercise and less white bone, wearing such a device can always remind you to pay attention to their own health status, urging you to do more exercise, reasonable diet, pay attention to sleep. Information from (OFweek wearable devices network)