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What Is a Smartwatch

2020-07-09

What Is a Smartwatch and What Do They Do? Everything you need to know about smartwatches A smartwatch is a portable device that's designed to be worn on a wrist. Like smartphones, they use touchscreens, offer apps, and often record your heart rate and other vital signs. The Apple Watch and Wear (formerly Android Wear) models prompted more consumers to appreciate the usefulness of wearing a mini computer on their wrists. In addition, specialty smartwatches for outdoor activities often supplement other, bulkier devices in an adventurer's tool kit. A Short History of the Smartwatch While digital watches have been around for decades—some with abilities like calculators and unit converters—only in the 2010s did tech companies begin releasing watches with smartphone-like abilities. Apple, Samsung, Sony, and other major players offer smartwatches on the consumer market, but a small startup actually deserves credit for popularizing the modern-day smartwatch. When Pebble announced its first smartwatch in 2013, it raised a record amount of funding on Kickstarter and went on to sell more than one million units. At the same time, advances in silicon miniaturization opened the door to other kinds of dedicated-purpose smartwatches. Companies like Garmin, for example, support smartwatches like the Fenix, which are more rugged and optimized with sensors and trackers to support back-country expeditions. Likewise, companies like Suunto released smartwatches optimized for scuba diving that withstand extended time at significant depths. What Do Smartwatches Do? Most smartwatches—whether they're intended for daily use (as with the Apple Watch) or for specific purposes (as with the Garmin Fenix)—offer a suite of standard features: Types of Smartwatches Broadly speaking, smartwatches occupy two niches in the wearables market. First, a general-purpose smartwatch—like the Apple Watch and most Google-powered Wear devices—blend form and function. They're designed to replace mechanical wristwatches and are heavily smartphone-dependent. Think of them...

Six Exciting IoT Applications in Healthcare

2020-06-19

Six Exciting IoT Applications in Healthcare You’ve probably heard of the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it’s changed how we manage things like our utilities and home security, but IoT is capable of so much more. Much of healthcare is reliant on human labor for tasks that are highly repetitive, manual, and often tedious. IoT has the power to not only significantly reduce operational costs for the healthcare industry, but improve patient care and save lives. Check out these six examples: 1. Reducing Emergency Room Wait Times Few things are as dull and boring as a visit to the emergency room. Apart from the resulting medical expenses, emergency room visits can sometimes take hours to complete. Thanks to some recent ingenuity and the IoT, at least one hospital — Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City — effectively slashed wait times for 50% of their emergency room patients who are in need of inpatient care. It’s their partnership with GE Healthcare and new, IoT-driven software, known as AutoBed, that tracks occupancy among 1,200 units and factors in 15 different metrics to assess the needs of individual patients. It’s a highly effective system that highlights some of the more innovative and exciting uses of the IoT. 2. Remote Health and Monitoring In some cases, patients don’t even have to visit an emergency room or hospital. One of the most obvious and popular applications of healthcare and the IoT is in remote health monitoring — sometimes known as telehealth. Not only does it minimize costs and eliminate the need for some visitations, but it helps improve the patient’s quality of living by sparing them the inconvenience of travel. If a patient has limited mobility or depends on public transportation, something as simple as this can make a world of difference. 3. Ensuring the Availability and Accessibility of...

How Technology Can Help Fight the Pandemic

2020-05-15

The global pandemic is far from over, we want to take this opportunity to recognize and applaud the continued heroic efforts by front-line workers—healthcare workers, first responders, service workers, and others—around the world. They put their lives at risk every day to save patients and keep critical operations running.

The new market hot spot for smart watches

2020-05-12

Smartwatches have become the new market hotspot, and many consumers want to buy a smartwatch, but because of its single function without much choice, many people buy smartwatches for decoration or simply to watch the time to use.

New way of connecting things

2019-05-13

NB-IOT:New way of connecting things Over the past few decades, the number of objects (things) connected to the internet has grown exponentially. And with the everyday development of technology, the Internet of things (IoT) has penetrated in almost every application area. It has revolutionized the way machines interact and provided cutting-edge solutions to a variety of real-life problems. As the IoT in itself is a large hood, covering almost every sphere of technology nowadays, we will be focussing our discussion on Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in this article. We will be exploring NB-IoT and how it is impacting the volume of connected devices and IoT connectivity infrastructure. What all we have already? In order to connect sparsely deployed IoT devices, the present short range communication technologies like BLE, ZigBee, WiFi are not a viable solution. To get over this limitation, several Wide Area Network (WAN) technologies have been evolved such as LoRaWAN (Long Range WAN), SigFox, LTE-CatM and NB-IoT. Since these technologies are meant for low powered battery operated devices, we name them as Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies. The four key features of LPWAN technologies are Long range, low power consumption, low throughput and low cost. As there are many LPWAN technologies, it’s very interesting to see how NB-IoT stands out. LPWAN provides voice to objects by enabling them to communicate. Consider a dustbin which is full and needs to be emptied. Using LPWAN technology, a dustbin can send a message to the user, “I am full, please empty me”, which in turn can ensure timely garbage clearance and avoid periodic manual checks on the other hand. Where does the problem lie? Existing cellular infrastructure and internet connectivity is designed keeping the humans at the centre point to fulfil their different data requirements. IoT devices...

Top On-Site Tests for Watches

2019-04-09

Top On-Site Tests for Watches In the watch industry, quality is paramount and Vositone, as an expert manufacturer, maintains a high standard of quality assurance (QA) processes from pre-production to post-production. There are three phases involved in our watch manufacturing quality control protocol: Incoming Quality Control (IQC) To ensure the quality of essential components, we employ rigorous testing that focuses primarily on a watch's main parts – dial, case, and strap. DialsDials are tested for ultraviolet (UV) resistance (UV Rays Test). This is done by applying an alloy paper over the dial in a half-covered position before placing it under the light of a UV machine. This determines if any dials show discoloration within 72 hours. CasesAn Abrasion Test determines cases’ resistance to scratches. The usual process involves tumbling the cases in a coarse mixture of materials that can cause abrasion. This test checks for corrosion and scratches to the metals. A separate Cases Condensation Test follows to examine if the cases meet waterproof standards by heating up the cases before placing them on cold plates and checking for any internal condensation. StrapsA common test for straps is the Tension and Torsion Test. Here, the leather straps are continuously folded, stretched, and twisted using two different machines. Metal bracelets are checked using a separate machine where the cuffs are repeatedly shaken (also known as the Swing Test). All tests check the flexibility of leather straps and the sturdiness of metal bracelets. In-Process Quality Control (IPQC)During manufacturing, a series of follow-up tests are added in the process to guarantee quality. As a smartwatch manufacturer, for instance, the Hands Test confirms whether the watch’s hands are in the proper parallel alignment by careful examination using an HD monitor. Outgoing Quality Control (OQA)Before the final packaging and shipping, all watches are subjected to final inspection....

Smart Wearable Devices

2016-07-16

If smartphones are the trend, then smartwatches are the trend of the moment. With the continuous development of cell phone functions, smart watches are becoming richer and richer in functions.

Smartwatch is now the best companion for smart life

2016-04-24

Smartwatch is now the best companion for smart life. It can make your life more convenient. Smartwatch has different functions, the most important of which are displaying time and sleep monitoring function. You can display the time on the screen for 24 hours throughout the day, and the sleep monitoring function can detect your sleep quality in real time. The data on the dial is used to analyze how you sleep each day. For example, whether you are in sleep too much or too little. If you are sleeping too little every day, then your body will also be affected. Smart watches offer a variety of smart features. Including: the watch can view your weight, breathing status, sleep, temperature, blood pressure, exercise, stress, breathing, sleep quality and other health conditions.

Smartwatch becomes your life partner

2016-02-28

Smartwatch, as the name suggests, is a watch with electronic functions. When you pick up your phone to read the news, do sports, or make phone calls, maybe it is a smart watch that accompanies you, or maybe it may become your phone companion. Now most of the people who use smart watches also start to have a function that they can judge whether you should get up and sleep or brush videos and play games, etc. based on the information displayed on the watch screen.