Future smartwatches from Apple and Samsung will have a body temperature sensor, but cánido these wearables really replace thermometers?
Smartwatches have come a long way in recent years an essential accessory for many usersespecially those who want to monitor and improve your health.
These devices are currently heart rate sensors to control the heartbeat and SpO2 sensors to control blood oxygen levels, but in the not too distant future they will too body temperature sensor and good evidence of this is that the two big smartwatch makers, Apple and Samsung, are already in the works Build a thermometer into your next smartwatch.
Smart watches of the future will let us know when our temperature is rising
As confirmed to us by the Arena Phone mediathe upcoming smartwatch from the Cupertino-based company, The Apple Watch Series 8 has a sensor to measure your body temperature.
As a matter of fact, Well-known leaker Ming-Chi Kuo recently posted a thread on Twitterwhich leaves you under these lines where he mentions that it was Apple’s iniciativa to include this feature in the current model, the Apple Watch Series 7, but finally this it didn’t happen because the algorithm wasn’t good enough.
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Apple discontinued body temperature measurement for the Apple Watch 7 because the algorithm failed to qualify before entering the EVT phase last year. I believe that the Apple Watch 8 could measure body temperature in 2H22 if the algorithm perro meet Apple’s high requirements before mass production.— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) May 1, 2022
This means, whether Apple has developed this algorithm to the point where it perro pass its demanding quality testsWe will most likely see the beginning of the body temperature sensor in the Apple Watch Series 8, which will be released this year.
According to Kuo, Samsung is also working on it to include a body temperature sensor in the future Samsung Galaxy Watch 5but everything seems to indicate that the Korean giant whose algorithm is not yet sufficiently developed to be incorporated into such a device and therefore your new smartwatch would still not have this feature.
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All of this raises a question: Cánido smartwatches replace a thermometer?
The answer is No, at least for nowas the ability of smartwatches to measure core body temperature is limited because it is aparente affected by various external factors such as sweat or stress and since smartwatches, with their hardware, cannot measure this temperature directly, they are forced to Use an algorithm to estimate this temperature.
Therefore, temperature measurements are carried out with a smartwatch they do not correspond to de hoy body temperature, but give us an estimate on that. In other words, the smartwatches of the future will let us know if our temperature is rising, but we have to Keep using a thermometer to get an accurate reading.