preface

With the increasing popularity of smart wearable devices in recent years, consumers are more and more able to accept the new experience brought by this new type of smart wearable devices. Meanwhile, it is also leading the new trend of smart products. As an important branch of smart wearable devices, smartwatches have developed rapidly in recent years and their functions have been constantly enriched. Consumers’ functional demands for smartwatches have become more and more diversified. In the development process, voice and video calling have been regarded as the basic needs of smartwatches. With the increase of people’s demand for social interaction, it is increasingly indispensable to embed voice and video calling capabilities in smartwatches.

Smartwatches are growing fast

In the third quarter of 2020, smartwatch shipments grew 6 percent year on year, according to research firm Counterpoint, with the top five brands accounting for 66 percent of total shipments, with Apple remaining in first place with a 28 percent market share. In terms of regional distribution, in the third quarter of 2020, the size of China’s smartwatch market surpassed the North American market for the first time, accounting for 30.2% of the global market and being the largest in a single country. Looking at the detailed brand shares of China’s smartwatch market, Huawei topped the list with 9.414 million units shipped as of the third quarter of 2020, reaching a 28.6 percent market share, while Xiaomi and Apple accounted for 22 percent and 17.8 percent, respectively.

China is becoming a major player in the global smartwatch market. In addition, as Chinese people attach more importance to healthcare due to the COVID-19 pandemic, well-known brands at home and abroad are racing to launch new products. At present, well-known brands such as Apple and Samsung are competing with Chinese domestic brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi and OPPO to launch new products in the smartwatch market. According to data released in 2021 by the China Economic Institute for Industry and Industry, the sales of smartwatches in China continue to rise. In 2019, the total sales of smartwatches (including children’s watches) in China reached 3.2 million units, up 1.15 million units (56%) year on year, and the sales of smartwatches in China are expected to reach 4.8 million units in 2020. Total sales will exceed 7 million units in 2021.

Main application scenarios of smartwatches

  • Smartwatch for Kids

One of the main applications for smartwatches is in children’s smartwatches. The core driving forces for this increase are as follows: First, the safety awareness of students and parents is improved. Location monitoring and instant messaging are needed for children, hoping to see the surrounding environment of children through videos to ensure the safety of children; Second, students need to communicate with each other through smartwatches. Meanwhile, students have the psychology of keeping up with the Joneses and social needs, which makes the penetration rate of smartwatches among students rapidly increase.

  • Healthcare smartwatches

Smartwatches are not only fashion accessories, but also important devices for personal health care, due to factors such as COVID-19, China’s rapidly aging population and the increase in the number of chronic diseases. Several functions are deployed in the smart watch application in the medical field. Through the network connection to the background application, it can realize the linkage with patients, such as the patient fall alarm, infusion treatment, examination and examination, patient critical value prompt, electronic fence, online consultation, VR visitation and other related linkage. The application of wearable devices in the medical industry can extend to wearable devices dedicated to the medical industry, including wearables used by medical staff, wearables based on patients, and wearables based on hospital management process.

  • Sports and entertainment smartwatch

Smartwatches for adults are mainly used for sports, health care and entertainment functions, providing information about speed and heart rate measurement, playing music, taking photos, mobile payments and audio and video calls. Consumers are increasingly keen on health management by wearing smartwatches to monitor immune-related data, such as heart rate, breathing rate and blood oxygen saturation. Also can take photos, video calls and other entertainment functions, so that the smart watch more rich.

  • Smart watch for the elderly

Smartwatches for the elderly keep track of the elderly’s movements and provide protection through senior-tailored functions such as video calls, emergency calls, heart rate measurements, emergency rescue requests, fall detection and medication alarm Settings, and location tracking. Smartwatches can be used for self-health monitoring in a simple and effective way, especially to observe the physical changes of the elderly, and to provide shelter and medical care services. It is expected that the related market demand will expand in the future.

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With the improvement of China’s economy and living standards and the diversification of consumer demand, consumers have increasingly high demands for the basic functions, quality, design and other series of smart watches. In the future, with the wide application and development of technologies such as ARTIFICIAL intelligence, 5G and cloud services, the functions of smartwatches will be further enhanced and the competition between domestic and foreign brands in China will intensify. As a result, manufacturers are working hard to introduce products with price competitiveness and technical strength, and are constantly improving their processes in research and development, actively applying new materials and technologies to create new growth opportunities. “Based on SMS alerts, location tracking and phone calls, smartwatches will be integrated with heart rate monitoring, sleep monitoring, calorie monitoring and other functions, and will be widely used in Internet of things services, healthcare, sports and other fields in the future,” said an analyst.

Combining AI with voice form the intelligent voice, embedded intelligent devices, not only can active extract effective information database based on itself, but also can learn by self grows, to provide users with the use of more simple and convenient, and can release the hands of users, allows users to drive in sports, such as cases, realize convenient interaction, improve interaction experience; At the same time, the health and exercise-related data collected by smart wearable sensors also need to be deeply mined through various intelligent algorithms. With the continuous progress of AI technology, it will further empower smartwatches and other wearable devices, opening the market ceiling.