With the increasing focus on a healthy lifestyle, smart wearable devices have gradually become essential in people's daily lives. Smartwatches, as one of the representatives, not only have basic functions such as time display, communication, and positioning but also come equipped with a crucial health monitoring feature – heart rate monitoring. So, why do smartwatches need to include heart rate monitoring functionality?
Health Monitoring
With the improvement of people's living standards and the enhancement of health awareness, more and more individuals are paying attention to their health. Heart rate, as one of the crucial indicators of human health, allows smartwatches to assist users in promptly detecting heart issues, such as arrhythmias and myocardial ischemia, through real-time monitoring and analysis of heart rate data. Through real-time monitoring and data analysis provided by smartwatches, users can gain timely insights into their health conditions, seek medical attention, or take corresponding measures promptly.
Assisting in Sports and Fitness
In addition to daily health monitoring, the heart rate feature also provides powerful assistance for sports and fitness, helping guide users in reasonable exercise routines. By monitoring users' heart rate data in real-time, smartwatches can assess their exercise status, such as heart rate changes during running and heart rate zones during exercise. Users can arrange their workout plans and intensity rationally based on the data and advice provided by the smartwatch, avoiding risks associated with excessive exercise.
Monitoring Sleep Quality
Sleep is crucial for human health. However, many people experience problems such as poor sleep quality and insomnia during the sleep process. By wearing a smartwatch during sleep, users can monitor their sleep heart rate, understand their sleep quality, and receive suggestions based on data feedback to help improve sleep quality.
Heart rate monitoring is not only applicable to daily health monitoring and sports and fitness but can also respond promptly in emergencies. For instance, in urgent situations like a heart attack, smartwatches can detect abnormal heart rates and send alerts or distress signals, assisting users in receiving timely medical treatment.
Principle of Heart Rate Monitoring in Smart Watches
Smart watches are equipped with optical sensors and bioelectric sensors internally, and these two sensors play a crucial role in heart rate monitoring.
The optical sensor utilizes a beam of light directed onto the blood vessels on the skin to monitor the heart rate through the pulsation of the vessels. When light is projected onto the blood vessels, a portion of the light is absorbed by the blood in the vessels, allowing the sensor to capture the pulsation of the vessels. By processing and analyzing these pulsation signals, the smart watch can calculate the user's heart rate data.
The bioelectric sensor, on the other hand, monitors heart rate by capturing the electrical signals generated during heartbeats. When the heart beats, it produces faint electrical signals that can be captured by the bioelectric sensor. By processing and analyzing these electrical signals, the smartwatch can calculate the user's heart rate data.
Heart rate monitoring has gradually become an essential feature for smartwatches, and the T49 Pro Smart Watch has also incorporated heart rate detection in its latest version. It comes with exclusive watch faces and continuous monitoring throughout the day.
Today, the health monitoring features added to smartwatches are no longer limited to heart rate alone. Functions such as electrocardiogram (ECG), blood oxygen level, blood pressure, and more can also be realized. Smartwatches have become excellent aids for our health management. With the continuous progress of technology, it is believed that in the future, smartwatches will be able to monitor health data with increasing precision and comprehensiveness.