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Fitbit Wants to Help You Manage Your Stress

August 25, 2020

Amid a pandemic that has a lot of people feeling stressed out, Fitbit has announced a timely new offering: Fitbit Sense, its most sophisticated fitness tracking wristband yet, with trailblazing technology aimed at tracking users’ stress.

Fitbit Wants to Help You Manage Your Stress

Its the first smartwatch device to feature a built-in electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor, which can detect minute electrical changes in the sweat level of the user’s skin. That, in turn, can offer metrics pertaining to stress.

A user can put their palm on the face of the device to activate the EDA Scan app at a given moment, or they can pair it with “guided mindfulness sessions” designed to let the device track how the body responds to meditation and deliberate relaxation.

Fitbit is also introducing a new Stress Management Score that is designed to assess the user’s response to stress based on a combination of metrics including heart rate and sleep activity, as well as electrodermal activity.

These features could prove highly appealing in the commercial marketplace at a time when consumers face daily uncertainty about the progression and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, not to mention a US presidential election that is being closely watched around the world.

Other features of the Fitbit Sense include a new ECG app, an on-wrist skin temperature sensor, and an SpO2 sensor. Fitbit says the device has a battery life of over six days, and it comes with a free trial of Fitbit Premium, which offers more detailed fitness data.

The device was announced alongside other new offerings from Fitbit, including Fitbit Versa 3, a wearable device featuring fitness tracking sensors, GPS, and Google Assistant; and Fitbit Inspire 2, a fitness tracker with improved battery life compared to the previous iteration.

Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: Biometric, biometric wearables, biometrics, ECG sensors, EDA sensors, electrodermal activity sensors, Fitbit, Fitbit Sense, fitness tracking, fitness tracking wearables, spO2, stress management

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