Welcome to the Qualcomm Wearables Ecosystem Connection

Thanks to all of you, 2021 was an exciting and successful year in wearables. We launched the Qualcomm® Wearables Ecosystem Accelerator Program in July 2021 and hosted our inaugural Ecosystem Summit in October. Both events exceeded our expectations and many of you are already seeing tangible benefits through your participation. Our program has grown to over 110 members over the last 6 months. We received feedback that you want us to continually engage with the ecosystem.

If you missed our Wearables Ecosystem Accelerator Program summit, you can watch the sessions on demand.

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Looking forward, we have an exciting year ahead of us with the launch of our next-generation wearables platforms. We will stay engaged through this newsletter and our monthly webinar series and look forward to hosting our annual summit later this year.

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Wearables Ecosystem Member Spotlight: MASON

Mason helps OEMs streamline the process of bringing smart wearables to market. Ecosystem members can utilize Mason to offload hardware and software development, reducing their investment requirements. Mason can build out single-focused devices from the ground up or deploy a scalable a line of smart wearables. Mason has both tablet and smartwatch designs powered by Qualcomm technologies.

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Wearables Ecosystem Member Spotlight: Thundercomm

Thundercomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 Development Kit

Thundercomm, a joint venture between Thundersoft and Qualcomm Technologies inc., represents the collaborative efforts in the wearables ecosystem. Thundercomm’s business model can scale from design house to a full ODM. Ecosystem members can utilize their market ready hardware and software solutions thus enabling faster development time with lower costs. Their portfolio includes the Snapdragon Wear™ 4100 Reference Platform and Wearable SDK, and white label wearable designs for health and kids.

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Next Generation Wearables Sensor Solutions

Fitness, health and wellness are emerging wearable segments and present differentiation opportunities for our customers. As we get ready to launch our next wearable platform, we are working with a range of sensor vendors to incorporate their solutions and are pleased to highlight them here. Please contact us to connect with any of the sensor vendors we’re supporting.

Cardiac Health

AliveCor is leading the mobile cardiac monitoring industry with FDA-cleared solutions that offer intelligent, highly personalized heart information to users and clinicians virtually anytime and anywhere. AliveCor’s development initiatives include wearable AliveCor AI for integration into new products and solutions. The company is dedicated to making its clinically validated technology available to wearable products, backed by regulatory clearances and collaborations in the healthcare system.

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Fitness Sensing and AI

Bosch Sensortec, a leading provider of innovative sensing solutions for consumer electronics has optimized MEMS sensing solutions for wearables. Bosch Sensortec, utilizes AI functions for fitness tracking and can learn new activities directly from the user, expanding the capability to track more activities in real time. Ecosystem members can more easily integrate Bosch Sensortec solutions into the next generation Qualcomm wearable platform.

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Cardiac Health and identification

B-Secur is on a mission to revolutionize the way people experience cardiac technology with everyday wearables. They have developed an industry leading accurate set of FDA cleared EKG algorithms for consumer / IoT & healthcare wearables. Their algorithms are ready for integration into a wide range of wearables products. Their suite of medical-grade EKG algorithms feature support for Arrhythmia Detection, Physiological Stress and Heart Rate Variability. B-Secur continues to innovate and has an extensive roadmap for enabling wearable tech with advanced health & wellness features.

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Health and Wellness Sensing

Philips Biosensing offers health-based solutions tailored to wearables. The Biosensing platform focuses on the entire health continuum and provides the opportunity for the wearables ecosystem to grow into personal health and medical segments, including preventive, diagnostic, treatment, and home care. Philips drives innovation and develops superior technology for wearable health solutions, making it easier for ecosystem members to deploy health on the wrist.

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Wearables Industry News

Connected Kids Wearables

As our lives continue to be more connected than ever through smart devices, parents are seeking new ways to stay in touch with their children and keep them safe without the expense or distraction of a smartphone. The kid smartwatch plays a vital role in helping many families stay connected around the world. Education and learning experiences on the wrist will help to further drive widespread adoption of connected kids watches.

T-Mobile SyncUp Kids Smartwatch Review [Android Central]
Gabb Watch Review: Safe, Fun, Wearable First Phone for Tweens [Newsweek]
Verizon GizmoWatch Disney Edition now includes video calling [Verizon]

Health and Wellness Wearables

The adoption of wearable technologies for health and wellness continues to accelerate the ecosystem. Wearables can address a broad range of health focused use cases supporting patients and hospital workers with monitoring, virtual care, and remote diagnostics. Connectivity and sensor technologies are key areas for innovation and are driving expanded use cases at the wrist for patients and the health industry.

Latest trends in medical monitoring devices and wearable health technology [Insider]

Upcoming Events & Activities

Save the date for our upcoming events:

Monthly Wearables Ecosystem Webinar - March 8th

Smartcom: A key wearables platform provider, enabling end-to-end solutions with leading global operators

Next Wearables Ecosystem Newsletter – April ‘22

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