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According to Taiwan’s DigiTimes, which is familiar with Apple’s supply chain trends, Apple Watch Series 6 will have blood oxygen saturation monitoring capabilities.
Smooth development of next Apple Watch
Apple Watch 6 is equipped with a biometric sensor that can monitor sleep status, blood oxygen saturation, pulse rate, heart rate, and atrial fibrillation, and MEMS (mechanical element parts, sensors, actuators, electronic DigiTimes reports that it also incorporates a circuit-integrated device-based accelerometer and gyroscope to provide a high degree of measurement accuracy that keeps out wearable devices from other companies.
According to the media, the development of the next-generation Apple Watch is progressing smoothly due to the close collaboration between Apple and Taiwanese company ASE Technology.
A code suggesting a blood oxygen saturation monitoring function was found in iOS 14
In March of this year, a code was discovered in the iOS14 code that indicates that the new Apple Watch will be equipped with a new function to notify the wearer when the blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) falls below a certain value. I was told.
It was also pointed out that the blood oxygen saturation monitoring function of Apple Watch Series 6 may be realized by a software update of watchOS 7, but this time’s coverage of DigiTimes will be a function available only for Series 6 Suggests.
As a result of decomposition performed by iFixit when the first Apple Watch was released in 2015, it was found that Apple’s heart rate sensor can also measure blood oxygen saturation, but so far Apple has activated the function. I didn’t come.
Fitbit, which is owned by Google, also sells smart watches equipped with blood oxygen saturation monitoring function, but the function of Apple Watch 6 will be more sophisticated, US media MacRumors commented. I am.
Source:DigiTimes via MacRumors
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