Samsung has incredibly evolved when it comes to the innovative technology of its renowned wearables, especially the Galaxy Watches. With One UI 8 Watch, Samsung adopted a healthier approach; the company showcases how its newest Galaxy Watch 8 series’ innovation broke ground in the field of user health and preventive care.
The company took it to the official newsroom in order to explain how it charged up the Galaxy Watch 8 series that focuses on preventive care.
Specifically, the Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic run Wear OS 6-based One UI 8 Watch, which brought about a bundle of useful and significant features to improve users’ health and lifestyle.
Meanwhile, the Galaxy Watch 8 series comes with an exceptional sensor technology that apparently offers clear yet actionable insights catered to the user’s lifestyle so that they can easily understand their body needs more deeply and detect silent threats such as ectopic beats early.
Changes made to improve lifestyle via sensor-based insights:
As mentioned, the Galaxy Watch 8 series is significantly driven by an advanced sensor that immediately offers more useful insights for the user’s nutrition and sleeping patterns.
The Antioxidant Index:
The Antioxidant Index feature via the BioActive sensor allows users to track their antioxidant intake by measuring their carotenoid levels in their skin within 5 seconds using multi-wavelength absorption spectroscopy. With antioxidants reflecting fruit and vegetable intake, users will be given a score of 0-100, categorizing it in one of three levels, while also showing that diet, UV light, alcohol, and stress can adversely impact the antioxidant levels. This insight helps promote healthier choices by adding another layer of prevention.
Bedtime Guidance:
The Galaxy Watch 8 series integrates a two-process model for sleep regulation, which is developed by KAIST and is clinically tested at Samsung Medical Center, where first up it tracks the user’s circadian rhythm, and the next process is to monitor the sleep pressure (how much an individual needs sleep) over three days. This then helps the watch in recognizing the differentiating equation in order to calculate an optimal bedtime for waking up refreshed by using an algorithm that collects data from sleep threshold and sleep pressure all throughout the day to deliver personalized bedtime guidance.
Now comes the preventive care for early detection of harmful threats:
Ectopic Beat Detection:
Ectopic beat detection is a process that identifies premature heartbeats that originate from locations other than the heart’s natural pacemaker, the sinoatrial (SA) node. At the same time, the Galaxy Watch 8 features an enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG) that is designed to efficiently monitor the ectopic beats’ premature heartbeats that can be missed or remain undetected in the routine checkups because of their nature of being packed without some noticeable symptoms. It can differentiate frequent ectopic beats by offering earlier insights, which may lead to arrhythmias that increase stroke and heart-failure risks, to provide preventive care to the users.
Vascular Load:
During sleep, the Galaxy Watch 8 tracks the photoplethysmogram (PPG) waves, which are basically optical signals that are associated with the blood flow while sleeping. By measuring blood volume and vascular stiffness and precisely analyzing different changes that occur via stress on the blood vessels. With diet, stress, and rest affecting the insights, the regular tracking guides the habits that are needed to be finely tuned while also helping to reduce the risk of cardiovascular risks before it takes complete control of the user’s health.
Conclusion:
Well, Samsung proudly says that its newest sensor technology infused in the Galaxy Watch 8 series aims to set a new standard for preventive care with real-time actionable insights to reduce hidden risks so that users can guard their health earlier in order to maintain a healthier lifestyle.
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