An Alphabet company develops health-centric smartwatch

Google and Android Wear might be the public face of wearables for Alphabet. But there’s another Alphabet division working in the wearables space. The company called Verily announced its new smartwatch called Study Watch. It’ll serve as a regular watch to users but it has more functions beyond that. Verily’s main business is developing tools for doctors to collect patient data and that’s what the Study Watch does.

There are a number of sensors in the wearable that collects information such as a person’s heart rate, inertial movements, and electrodermal activity. This data will be collected and encrypted in the device itself for security purposes and will then be uploaded to Verily’s cloud servers for processing via machine learning. This watch can help identify patterns in things like the progression of Parkinson’s disease or give doctors a baseline level of health to see how a person goes from healthy to sick. Verily didn’t too much release information but they did say it could last a week on a single charge. But don’t expect this to come out and be sold to the general public.

Source: Android Authority