Michael Barbella, Managing Editor01.05.23
Daily healthtech pioneer Baracoda kicked off this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) by unveiling BHeart, the world’s first health tracker with an “endless” battery. Integrated discreetly within bracelets and watch bands compatible with any classic timepiece, BHeart uses its patent pending BMotion energy harvesting technology to recharge itself by motion, body heat, and environmental light.
BHeart gathers sufficient energy to power a range of sensors that deliver health data to a smartphone app for iOS or Android devices. BHeart uses this captured energy to encourage a more active lifestyle by its wearer.
“The first health trackers were important for establishing that wearable technology can encourage healthier lifestyles, but we must reach more than athletes to improve public health,” Baracoda CEO Thomas Serval said. “People of all ages and fitness levels need easier ways to track their health, so we must design products that fit into everyone’s lifestyles, including people who don’t find today’s technology accessible or easy to maintain.”
BHeart is the next-generation of daily healthtech products that are designed to blend into existing objects, fashion and routines, making health technology more hassle-free and invisible. Current health trackers often require considerable user intervention, including frequent charging, manual updates and complicated data interpretation, according to Baracoda. The complexity can be discouraging, particularly for those seek easier, more passive ways to keep tabs on their health or to share data with healthcare providers and caregivers.
BHeart is designed to be subtly worn as a screenless watch band for an existing timepiece or as a bracelet. Its design hides complex sensors and energy collection technology. Baracoda's AIoT platform transforms the data coming from multiple health sensors into actionable insights about users' body energy, health status, mental resilience, activity level, and sleep quality.
BHeart’s smartphone app shares these insights and also provides simple, personalized advice, if needed, on the state of the user’s health in order to improve it daily. In addition to health indexes, users can see the energy they produce each day and over time, showing personal baselines and how behavior influences health, to encourage daily improvements.
“Helping people become healthier shouldn’t demand they take on entirely new routines, and technology doesn’t have to be disposable to be low maintenance,” added Serval. “We can build tech that lasts to build habits that last. It just has to be designed to fit into our existing lifestyles.”
BHeart is also created with sustainable principles in mind, including its energy-autonomous design as wekk as the selection of plastic-free materials used in its manufacturing. Sustainable leather and high-quality and lightweight alloys have been chosen for durability and its design for use with current classic watches further reduces the electronic waste associated with some smart watches’ short life cycles.
For the base model of the watch band, the material is lightweight metal, in silver, dark silver, or gold tones to match most classic watches. The extended product line will include a watch band or standalone bracelet made of sustainable leather to easily match any daily outfit.
BHeart is compatible with standard watches with a lug width of 18-22mm. BHeart will be available to purchase at bheart.io from April 2023; the BHeart app will be free to download from the iOS App Store in April and Google Play Store in June.
Established on three continents, Baracoda is a leader in daily healthtech. Baracoda infuses connected technology into the everyday routine, leveraging AI, data analysis, machine learning, app development, gamification and more. Baracoda launches products and scale business alongside global market leaders, relying on a unique B2B2C business model. Its innovation model is driven by quantitative indexes, developed in-house to recognize daily habits that improve health and wellness.
BHeart gathers sufficient energy to power a range of sensors that deliver health data to a smartphone app for iOS or Android devices. BHeart uses this captured energy to encourage a more active lifestyle by its wearer.
“The first health trackers were important for establishing that wearable technology can encourage healthier lifestyles, but we must reach more than athletes to improve public health,” Baracoda CEO Thomas Serval said. “People of all ages and fitness levels need easier ways to track their health, so we must design products that fit into everyone’s lifestyles, including people who don’t find today’s technology accessible or easy to maintain.”
BHeart is the next-generation of daily healthtech products that are designed to blend into existing objects, fashion and routines, making health technology more hassle-free and invisible. Current health trackers often require considerable user intervention, including frequent charging, manual updates and complicated data interpretation, according to Baracoda. The complexity can be discouraging, particularly for those seek easier, more passive ways to keep tabs on their health or to share data with healthcare providers and caregivers.
BHeart is designed to be subtly worn as a screenless watch band for an existing timepiece or as a bracelet. Its design hides complex sensors and energy collection technology. Baracoda's AIoT platform transforms the data coming from multiple health sensors into actionable insights about users' body energy, health status, mental resilience, activity level, and sleep quality.
BHeart’s smartphone app shares these insights and also provides simple, personalized advice, if needed, on the state of the user’s health in order to improve it daily. In addition to health indexes, users can see the energy they produce each day and over time, showing personal baselines and how behavior influences health, to encourage daily improvements.
“Helping people become healthier shouldn’t demand they take on entirely new routines, and technology doesn’t have to be disposable to be low maintenance,” added Serval. “We can build tech that lasts to build habits that last. It just has to be designed to fit into our existing lifestyles.”
BHeart is also created with sustainable principles in mind, including its energy-autonomous design as wekk as the selection of plastic-free materials used in its manufacturing. Sustainable leather and high-quality and lightweight alloys have been chosen for durability and its design for use with current classic watches further reduces the electronic waste associated with some smart watches’ short life cycles.
For the base model of the watch band, the material is lightweight metal, in silver, dark silver, or gold tones to match most classic watches. The extended product line will include a watch band or standalone bracelet made of sustainable leather to easily match any daily outfit.
BHeart is compatible with standard watches with a lug width of 18-22mm. BHeart will be available to purchase at bheart.io from April 2023; the BHeart app will be free to download from the iOS App Store in April and Google Play Store in June.
Established on three continents, Baracoda is a leader in daily healthtech. Baracoda infuses connected technology into the everyday routine, leveraging AI, data analysis, machine learning, app development, gamification and more. Baracoda launches products and scale business alongside global market leaders, relying on a unique B2B2C business model. Its innovation model is driven by quantitative indexes, developed in-house to recognize daily habits that improve health and wellness.
