Mr. Shi from Shenzhen works out every day, but he can't sleep well. One late night, while asleep, he suffered 49 apneas in an hour, which is a very serious situation. Severe apnea may lead to hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cerebrovascular disease and other complications, and even cause sudden death at night.
A few days later, he suddenly received a phone call from Beijing 301 Hospital, reminding him of the high degree of health risk and severe atrial fibrillation, and recommending timely medical attention. Subsequently, Mr. Shi went to the hospital in time for atrial fibrillation surgery and apnea correction. This is a story reported by Shenzhen TV's 30 Minutes at Noon in November 2020, which found that Mr. Shi's serious illness was due to the Honor Smartwatch that he wears on his wrist every day.
Screenshot of Shenzhen TV's 30 Minutes at Noon report
There are many stories of smartwatches saving lives, and smartwatches that have a fashionable, technological look and can provide health data such as exercise, sleep, heart rate, and blood oxygen at any time and any place are just what today's young people are looking for to keep an eye on changes in their health indicators. According to the latest data from Counterpoint, a well-known market research organization, the global smartwatch market will ship 127.5 million units in 2021, a year-on-year growth of 24%. Among them, Apple holds the first place with a market share of 30%, and Samsung, Huawei, Huami, and Xiaomi are all in the top eight in the world.
In this trend, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Huami, Xiaomi, OPPO and a host of other tech giants are also optimizing the health monitoring features of smartwatches, which seem to be conceptualized as features that can really save a life at a critical moment.
Heart rate monitoring
Apple Watch was earlier equipped with a heart rate monitoring function, and very many users have been saved by wearing Apple Watch, which has been reported by many media outlets many times. For example, in April 2018, Oklahoma student Skylar Joslin was in school when the watch warned him of an abnormal heart rate.Joslin had previously suffered from tachycardia, so he made a point of sending this alert to his mom via text message. Joslin's mom immediately picked him up and took him to a nearby emergency room, a visit that took 7.5 hours and brought Joslin back to life.
Oxygen saturation test
Oxygen saturation is the percentage of the volume of oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood as a percentage of all hemoglobin in the blood, reflecting the concentration of blood oxygen in the blood. With the development of flexible electronics technology, based on the PGG principle of the sensor, without the need for blood collection operations, the smartwatch can do the blood oxygen saturation monitoring.
This function can not only be applied to the user's daily health monitoring, in the field of sports also has a very good application, to provide athletes with scientific sports monitoring system, at any time to grasp the physical condition of the athlete, will become a competitive sports achievement breakthrough of the new science and technology to help athletes make new breakthroughs.
Fall detection
There are many more examples of fall detection. When a user falls, the watch will determine the user's status, and if the user is unable to move, the watch will automatically send out an alarm and transmit location information.
Apple Watch's "fall detection"
This feature can potentially protect older users, those who love sports like cycling, and so on. A young couple hiking in New Jersey accidentally fell off a cliff, and when they thought they were going to die without help because of the broken bones they sustained in the fall, the Watch automatically dialed 911 to help them call for help.
It is understood that Apple is launching a "crash detection" feature for Apple Watch, which, similar to "fall detection", will automatically detect whether the user has been involved in a car accident and automatically alert the police or notify emergency contacts. The "crash detection" requires a shorter period of time to make a judgment, and the algorithm requirements may be higher.
In recent years, with the outbreak of healthcare digitization, intelligent demand, the integration of healthcare and technology is becoming a new wind mouth, which attracted many technology giants to enter the big health track, therefore, including smart watches, including smart wearable devices that can urge health management is also in full bloom.