AI has definitely transformed our lives in a lot of ways. We can see that everything around us is becoming more personalized and intelligent. AI pushes this envelope further by enabling devices to transform how we envision our health and wellbeing with useful insights

As the market grows for wearables, bigger players like Healy, Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei, Fitbit, etc. are coming up with AI enabled wearable technology, which is now pushing the boundaries of the capabilities in wearables.

AI enabled wearables in healthcare

Wearables in healthcare typically collect the health data, monitor it, and interact with users. It provides timely awareness on various health parameters to the user and physician. For example, real-time health monitoring wearable sensors, fitness wearables, wearables for elderly care, etc.

Wearables in healthcare industry are using AI to improve the quality of life in various ways. Lets take an example of AI-powered diabetic’s eye disease detection from researchers in the Google Brain ini­tiative. In this system, mathematical algorithms, which are based on Deep Learning uses neural networks to learn and perform a particular task by repetition and self-correction.

Another example is Next generation wearables for blind people, these wearables detect obstacles on user’s path using ultrasounds and notify them about those obstacles so users can safely navigate objects around them.

AI enabled wearables in fitness

AI wearables can assist fitness with their routine training activities. Most fitness wearables help the user to track their activities. If a user walks 12000 steps, the wearable device will count the steps and display it. However, the limitation with these wearables is that after a certain point people don’t understand how to utilize the data. AI enabled wearables can not only track the data, but also defines what the user needs to eat, how much they should sleep, and how they should train to improve their fitness among others insights.

Nowadays, wearables are coming in different forms and technology advancement such as Intelligent Voice assistant (Alexa, Siri etc.) integration. Advanced sensors are embedded into these wearables for tracking, analyzing and improving fitness or sport specific activities of users by generating real-time user insights like the Healy Watch...

Going the extra mile, these smart wearables provide actionable insights to the user to reduce the risk of injuries as well. e.g Smart helmets for bikers, smart glasses, smart watches, fitness bands, yoga pants which assists for correct poses

To sum up, AI in wearables are pushing the envelope by assisting patients and doctors with remote tracking, precautions, remote diagnostics and helping patients to make informed choices. AI in the fitness industry is empowering devices to become artificial assistants to help the users take care of themselves.

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