Wearable products development--Part I
In the early days, if the general public wanted to know their health status, they could only go through hospital examinations, where trained medical professionals would analyze the data and draw reports. As people pay more and more attention to their own health, driven by technology, the medical and health industry has also shifted its focus to capturing human health information with the help of auxiliary portable devices. From these objective data reflecting physical health status, medical staff can make accurate judgments. So far, wearable devices have been widely used and discussed in the field of health.
Especially in the past three years, the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has been raging around the world, and wearable devices have highlighted their advantages and value in the history of mankind's fight against the epidemic. Take an oximeter as an example. During the epidemic, the price of an oximeter was one price a day, and it was even hard to find one.
Wearable devices refer to electronic devices worn at different locations on the body or built into clothing or accessories. Its basic operating mechanism is to use small sensors connected to the network to automatically capture and analyze biometric information through predictive analytics. After it can be connected to an external system through a cellular network or wireless LAN using the Internet, it has artificial intelligence technology to store and analyze and provide feedback to the device user. It is widely used in daily life because of its intelligence, ease of use and non-invasiveness. Wearable devices on the market for consumers to purchase can be divided into fitness and entertainment, safe pet use, or medical care use.
Wearable devices are roughly worn on three parts of the human body, namely the head, trunk and limbs. Common wearable devices worn on the head include glasses, helmets, headband hearing aids, earrings, headphones and earmuffs.Wearable devices worn on the torso are mostly located on the chest of the human body. A study by HuhnS et al. on a total of 11,224,872 wearers showed that 4.9% of participants wore the device on the chest. The study also found that wrist wearable devices had the widest audience, accounting for 95.2% of the study population.This is consistent with the findings of Escobar-LineroE et al. In their summary analysis of 68 wearable device literature, the vast majority of commercialized wearable devices used to detect health are worn on the wrist.For example, watches account for 66% of the total number of analytical devices, which may be related to the function of being worn on the wrist. Some basic physiological parameters, such as body temperature, heart rate, ultraviolet exposure levels and daily activities, can be detected by wrist wearable devices.
