Wearables might be a good way to gauge your general health, but the health stats they measure are usually off by a few points when compared to medical devices purpose-built to measure blood pressure or heart rate. That’s something that Huawei is going to change thanks to their new TruSense tech that’s going to start rolling out in their new crop of devices next month.
TruSense, in a nutshell, is the all-encompassing tech that the company has developed for their next crop of wearables. We attended the launch of the system recently in Dongguan, China, and the long and short of it is that Huawei has managed to develop hardware and software that allows future wearables to have insanely good accuracy. In fact, the data that the new TruSense system collects with Huawei’s upcoming wearables is now almost as accurate as medical devices.
Huawei has tirelessly worked with multiple industry bodies in different countries, and has received certifications of TruSense’ accuracy for heart rate measurements from SGS Switzerland, SpO2 measurements from China, as well as Blood Pressure measurement certification from the European Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR).
What does this all mean for you? Well, it just means that Huawei’s upcoming wearables, scheduled to be announced in September, will have the same measuring capabilities that the specialized medical measuring equipment sitting in your doctor’s office has. It’ll allow their smartwatches to effectively monitor your heart rate, SpO2 levels and even blood pressure continuously and let you know if there’s something wrong that you might have missed. In fact, they’ll be so accurate that you can generate those measurements in a report that you can hand your doctor when it’s time for your checkup to help your primary care provider figure out if the pain that you suddenly felt in your chest is nothing, or you’re at the edge of developing hypertension.