Samsung invests in health monitoring.
The news: The global electronics company unveiled its latest innovations in connected objects, sensors and AI.
- The $399 Galaxy Ring monitors sleep, activity, heart rate and menstrual cycle to provide an energy score and personalized recommendations.
- Its new Galaxy Watch series features an advanced glycation end-product (AGE) index, decoding metabolic health and biological age.
Samsung’s smart ring, which puts competitors like Oura on notice, doesn’t require a subscription. By pushing AGEs, it’s also looking to leapfrog Apple in the race for non-invasive blood sugar monitoring.
From start to finish. More than just a device or a single feature, tech giants like Samsung, Apple and Google want to create complete healthcare ecosystems.
With users locked into software, smartphones and wearables, health data flows to a central hub, fueling new features and advanced AI.
In the short term, the additional upsells benefit the bottom line. In the long term, the prospect of achieving medical device status and capturing healthcare industry funds justifies the investment.
Looking forward: For tech giants, smartwatches and rings are a relatively small market, even though they are worth more than billions of dollars. For their bets to pay off, they need to make trillions of dollars, which means we are only just getting started.