What intelligent hardware can achieve health monitoring? How is hardware and software combined?
The following is an analysis by CACOC Labs analyst Cathy:
Intelligent hardware has been particularly hot in the past two years, and smart hardware has been pioneered by health. Therefore, a large number of intelligent hardware in the name of tracking health have been successively launched. So, what intelligent hardware can achieve health monitoring? How is hardware and software combined?
First solve the first problem. If you simply classify, you can classify them into several categories:
First, smart bracelets and smart watches.
The most popular startups for wearable devices are the bracelets and watches. There are hundreds of startups in the original bracelet watch category, but after fierce market killing, such as the millet bracelet through the price butcher strategy, using a 69 yuan product basically killed the entire Chinese bracelet industry. In foreign countries, there are also high-end bracelets such as Fitbit, Jawbone and Misfit.
In terms of smart watches, it is basically the world of Apple Watch. In November, the latest report released by market research firm Canalys showed that since its initial listing, Apple's Apple Watch has shipped nearly 7 million units, exceeding the total of smart watch shipments in the past five quarters of all other vendors on the market.
Second, intelligent weight scale, body fat scales
Body weight and body fat are the basic indicators of people's health. Therefore, there are many companies that make intelligent hardware around weight and body fat, which can be easily divided into smart weight scales and smart body fat scales. Because the body fat scale needs to adopt the BIA bioelectrical impedance measurement method, the technical requirements are relatively high, and the threshold of entrepreneurship is relatively high. Therefore, most companies will do weight scales in order to seize the concept of intelligence, but some companies directly go to the threshold. Body fat scales.
Among the players of intelligent scales, such as Xiaomi, music, etc., the traditional electronic scale manufacturer Xiangshan also made smart scales. Recently, there are also big players such as HTC, and the United Nations outside sports company Under Armor also plans to make an intelligent weight scale. For HTC, whose mobile phone market share is gradually decreasing, it seems that smart scales are a new direction for its transformation and exploration.
In the field of body fat scales, traditional companies include Omron and Ballyda, but later the company gradually intelligentized the body fat scale. The domestic manufacturers are mainly the PICOOCs of Tencent and Jingdong Investment, and the foreign manufacturers have Fitbit. The advantage of the intelligent body fat scale than the intelligent weight scale is that in addition to the weight, it can also measure a number of data such as body fat, muscle rate, visceral fat, protein, etc., and provide more data reference for comprehensive analysis of health management.
Third, sphygmomanometer, blood glucose meter.
Compared to the mass group of wristbands, watches and weight scales, sphygmomanometers and blood glucose meters are aimed at more vertical groups, such as daily monitoring of hypertension and diabetes.
In the field of sphygmomanometers, traditional companies include Omron, Jiu'an, etc. In the intelligent sphygmomanometer, Jiu'an has ihealth, and there is also a smart sphygmomanometer. In the field of blood glucose meters, such as sugar doctors, they also received investment from Tencent.
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