Smart Wearables

IoT solutions can not only automate the space you live or work in but also work directly on your body to monitor your activity, your fitness levels, and other parameters that act as indicators of your well-being. Sensors can be embedded in your clothes, accessories, shoes, watches, eyeglasses, and all things that you wear, they turn them into smart wearables.

Examples of Smart Wearables solutions include:

• Safety and Well-being

  Sensors embedded in smartwatches or specialized activity tracking devices worn as wristbands can continuously measure several fitness parameters such as your heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and hydration levels and advise you to take corrective action such as drinking fluids if dehydrated. In extreme situations, emergency services could be directly notified. These services could be extremely valuable for people who are not able to seek help themselves.

  Sensors in your shoes can determine your walking habits, gait, and feet placement and feed that data into systems that can analyze and provide advice on how you can improve your walking habits. Such solutions can be extremely useful for athletes to improve their performance and for normal users as well since incorrect walking styles can lead to knee pain or other such issues.

  Sensors in your eyeglasses can detect your state of wakefulness by monitoring your eyelid movements and send you an alert if you appear to be less alert than required if you are driving or operating heavy machinery.

• Comfort and Convenience

  Sensors in clothes can detect your body conditions and control appliances to increase your comfort. For example, if sensors detect excessive body heat or sweat on a person sitting in a car, they can send a signal to the car air-conditioner to lower the temperature.

  Smart glasses can display urgent messages to the wearer, similar to the head-up displays used in airplanes and high-end cars if it detects that your hands are busy and you cannot access your phone to view the message.

  Location sensors and GPS trackers embedded in something you wear can track your location and give you directions to your destination, assisting to find a shop or an establishment you are searching for, without you needing to use a smartphone.

These are only some examples of how IoT solutions can be used as Smart Wearables, there are many more creative solutions that can be implemented.