Top 10 Wearable Devices That Help You Keep COVID-19 at Bay
Published on : Friday 24-04-2020
Wearable technology has developed at a striking pace in the past few years and firmly established itself as an evolving product category. Since the Covid-19 cases continue growing by the day, healthcare stakeholders are discovering new tools and medications to help stem the tide. Developments in technology and healthcare devices now are coming into their own and helping us fight against the pandemic. In such a scenario, wearable tech is playing a crucial role which is effective at monitoring a number of physical and physiological parameters such as heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure, movement, sleep and more.
JawBone UP
Looking as a simple rubber wristband, Jawbone UP is one of the most popular fitness bands in the category of fitness accessory. It’s an iPhone app and displays movement and sleep details from the UP24 or UP band and delivers insights, celebrates milestones and sets challenges. The Jawbone UP is not a complete circle; on its one end is a cap that covers a 3.5-millimeter plug, also known as a TRS plug. When plugged into an iPhone, the Jawbone UP can transmit data collected during your activities.
FitBit Blaze Smart Fitness Watch
Fitbit Blaze Smart Fitness Watch is a Fitbit’s wearable product. The Fitbit Blaze has been around for three years now, but its reasonable price, an abundance of features, accuracy, and good overall productivity still stands it out of the crowd of fitness bands. It’s capable of accurately monitoring active and resting heart rate, calories burned per day, sleep quality, and flight of stairs climbed, among others. It can track a variety of sports as well, including running, biking, and treadmill.
RE-Vibe Reminder Wristband
This wearable device reminds students to get back to work. Rather than a tap on the shoulder from their teacher, students get a quiet, automated vibration on their wrist. This wristband helps a child to concentrate on their homeschooling by transmitting gentle vibrations to alert the wearer to stay on task, it even contains a special algorithm which prevents users from becoming acclimated to the vibrations. This wristband can be worn by adults with focus problems.
GOQii
GOQii is a smart-tech-enabled, integrated preventive healthcare platform. GOQii is a life fitness tracker with lifestyle coaching, helping to make a permanent shift towards a healthier lifestyle. GoQii has a touch OLED display and 360 motion sensor that measures activity and sleeps quality. It also has Bluetooth 4.0 and 4 -5 days of backup on a single charge. GoQii has got some world-leading experts that analyze the data such as height, weight, gender, etc.
Garmins Fitness Tracker
Whether you already live an active lifestyle or just want to get started, Garmins fitness trackers help you take you ahead toward fitness. One of the Garmins’ fitness trackers is Garmin Forerunner 15, which is a simple, affordable GPS watch. With 8 hours capacity of battery life using GPS and 35 days standby features make this watch to set apart. The Forerunner 15 enables users to sync their data with Garmin Connect, opening up a whole other level of analysis and sharing. The device helps in monitoring heart rate and tracking movement.
Estimote’s Proof of Health Wearables
Estimote, a Bluetooth location beacon startup, has adapted its technological expertise to develop a new product designed specifically for curbing the spread of COVID-19. The company recently has created a new range of wearable devices called the “Proof of Health” wearables, which aim to provide contact tracing, monitoring the potential spread of the coronavirus from person-to-person, at the level of a local workplace facility. According to the company, the devices enhance workplace safety for those who have to be co-located at a physical workplace even while social distancing and physical isolation measures are in place.
Apple Watch Series 5
The Apple Watch Series 5 runs on a new Apple S5 chip inside: 64-bit dual-core S5 processor, up to 2x faster than S3 processor (includes W3 wireless chip). The Series 5 includes 32 GB storage, up from 16 GB from previous models, as well as will be preloaded with watchOS 6. Apple Watch Series 5 features an Always-On Retina display, with new materials including titanium, and a compass to show which way you are facing in apps. The Series 5 has a water resistance rating of 50 meters under ISO standard 22810:2010. Starting with $399 for the GPS-only model, Apple Watch Series 5 comes in ceramic white and new natural brush and space black titanium models.
MonitorMe
MonitorMe is a clinical device and a telephone that provides people with an interactive self-monitoring system with decision support tools. The device is concierge medicine that uses state-of-the-art technology to empower patients to receive the care they need in the comfort of their homes. MonitorMe also provides users with unparalleled and hassle-free access to a physician with no copay or deductible. MonitorMe allows capturing video from a personal perspective, using a smartphone camera, and sending it to a remote observer.
MediBioSense’s Wearable Sensors
MediBioSense, a UK-based startup, offers cutting-edge medically approved wearable sensors that capture user health through its heart rate, respiration rate, ECG, skin temperature, steps and body posture including fall detection/severity, all that of in real time. The technology enables live data to be viewed remotely anywhere in the world hence providing remote monitoring solutions. MediBioSense works on wearable patches for real-time monitoring of a wide range of vital signs, including parameters such as heart rate, ECG, temperature, respiration rate, and blood oxygen level (SpO2). The patch is a Class IIa medical device, certified both by the FDA and CE.
Lief Therapeutics’ Smart Patch
Lief Therapeutics’ smart patches measure users’ heart and breath to track their stress levels in real-time, using a clinically-proven biomarker of stress called heart rate variability (HRV). Lief tracks and optimizes your resiliency to stress by increasing your natural heart rate variability (HRV), a biomarker of your physical and psychological health. A low HRV score is linked with anxiety, distraction and poor performance - things we'd all prefer to avoid. The shape of the Lief is designed to comfortably fit and bend with your torso. The patch is just 6mm thin and sits under your clothing discreetly. Lief uses stickers for all-day wear without restrictive straps.
Therefore, as healthcare stakeholders are racing against time to implement technologies to combat Covid-19 pandemic, wearable technologies are emerging as an effective solution. Players like Qualcomm and Intel are even betting on wearable technology. Moreover, Amazon UK, the online retail giant has started a wearable technology store. We believe, in the coming days, more other internationally available wearable gadgets will come out to the market with the purpose of helping people to keep the coronavirus at bay.