(Bloomberg/Samantha Murphy Kelly) — Garmin Ltd. on Wednesday launched an arm band for put on throughout sleep that may observe important well being metrics, stepping up competitors with corporations like Whoop Inc. and different rising gamers.
The corporate’s $170 Index Sleep Monitor — a primary for the health gadgets maker — is worn on the higher arm like a blood-pressure cuff and tracks blood oxygen saturation, coronary heart fee variability, respiration charges, respiration patterns and pores and skin temperature. It additionally offers sleep metrics like hours slept and information on completely different levels of sleep.
The system is screen-free and guarantees seven nights price of battery life on a single cost, based on the corporate. It additionally has options like menstrual cycle insights and a sensible alarm clock that may get up a consumer with particular vibration patterns based mostly on how they’re sleeping throughout a pre-selected window.
The launch comes as Whoop, Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. are both experimenting with new kind components like health-centric rings and earbuds or are including new sleep and health monitoring options. The growth is notable for Garmin, which does promote scales and blood-pressure screens however is usually identified for its health watches.
In April, Garmin reported document first quarter income of $1.54 billion, surpassing Wall Road expectations. It has tried to excite buyers with new choices, together with a subscription service to create extra personalised insights.
Final week, Garmin introduced the Venu X1 watch, which has a big display to higher compete with the Apple Watch Extremely. It additionally lately rolled out two extra traditional sports activities watches, together with the Forerunner 570 and Forerunner 970.
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