Huawei introduces TruSense System, combining all its sensors into a powerful health and wellness guide
TruSense’s Chinese name is a reference to understanding mysteries with celestial measurements, hinting at the accuracy and expertise needed to detect, monitor, and uncover health findings at an individual level.
Huawei announced its TruSense System by trying to cram a wealth of health tracking advancements into an hour-long keynote. Even its official press release does not do the technology any justice. Image: HWZ.
Huawei today (28 August 2024) announced a significant breakthrough for its upcoming wearable devices: the inclusion of a highly accurate, fast, and comprehensive sensor module called the TruSense System.
The five "major vital signs" any modern wearable user would already be familiar with, but TruSense does all that with a twist. Image: HWZ.
In its official announcement, the new sensor "measures more than 60 health and fitness indicators" to cover "six of the body's major (health) systems", but it's actually much, much more than that.
This is a summary slide showing how Huawei has moved away from single point metrics and readings to give insights that don't really inform its users, TruSense produces 60+ indicators by using six sensors and a gauntlet of algorithms. Image: HWZ.
Huawei's goal of using wearables to help users achieve desired health outcomes and assist medical practitioners stems from a limitation of single-point trackers and monitors. Currently, health tracking technologies on smart devices use single-point monitoring, using a few metrics that give an inconclusive snapshot to determine if you're okay. That would be wildly insufficient for chronic conditions that develop over time, and it's also limited by what we know about the human body (which is a lot, but hardly enough).
The six out major health systems that Huawei TruSense is able to read, monitor, and track. Image: HWZ.
This is where Huawei TruSense comes in. Huawei's new hardware sensor module notes five vital signs (blood pressure, SpO2, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature) in the human body to detect health conditions better and, hopefully, uncover certain mysteries.
TruSense's Chinese name (玄玑, pronounced xuán jī) refers to understanding mysteries with ancient astronomical measuring instruments, hinting at the accuracy and expertise needed to detect, monitor, and uncover health findings at an individual level.
It's not just pure algorithms and harvesting of health data, but also the provision of better hardware that helps with more accurate readings via TruSense. Image: HWZ.
To live up to those claims, Huawei has chiefly made three main technological upgrades to improve the sensor. The TruSense System can compensate for uneven blood distribution with its sensors, employ multi-path sensing techniques, and enhance signal quality with better optics.
The combination of new hardware improves the accuracy beyond older Huawei wearables. Image: HWZ.
As a result, the new TruSense module isn't only good at detecting multiple signals; it is also more accurate than before, with a 98%-accurate heart rate, a lower than 2% error for SpO2 readings, and a less than 5+8mmHg deviation for blood pressure accuracy.
How the combination of sensors and readings arrive at suggestions is a very precise science, and it's reliant on many factors for Huawei's sensor module to pick on. Image: HWZ.
This, in turn, allows Huawei to track six key health systems in the human body using more than 60 indicators that the module can detect.
Even in trials, TruSense combined various data points and readings to highlight essential health concerns for followup. Image: HWZ.
For instance, it can detect a possible lung infection by combining microphone pickup, heart rate, SpO2 readings, body temperature, and more. By combining the different readings, the module can let the user know they might want to follow up with medical practitioners for further assistance.
Readings aren't only accurate, but also fast via TruSense. Image: HWZ.
Speed is just as crucial as accuracy, and one of TruSense's perks is that it can generate SpO2 readings in mere seconds.
Also, since it's designed to help detect serious health concerns, the module is just as capable of holistic health sensing, like sleep tracking, workouts, and general health management. However, it goes beyond just showing you the quality of your workouts and sleep and even allows recommendations to improve your lifestyle using knowledge gained from studies and trials.
Partnership with badminton brand for health data to develop TruSense further in the realm of badminton tracking. Image: HWZ.
The information from TruSense also contributes to further medical discoveries, done through partnerships with private businesses that operate in sports and wellbeing industries, on top of helping out in professional health research bodies.
How Huawei envisions TruSense working in your wrist wearable. Image: HWZ.
Right now, more than 1,100 ecosystem apps and 250+ health research projects across 182 million monthly active users are contributing precious health data that can better help understand the human condition, all with user consent data privacy in mind.
Part of Huawei's effort in furthering the research of atrial filibration, which in turn benefits both TruSense and their research partner. Image: HWZ.
As such, Huawei's TruSense module doesn't just rely on high-tech parts to get combined readings and health suggestions. It serves its users by literally digesting and translating health data from others, tailoring it to a wearable form factor so that everyone else can better understand the mysteries of their bodies.
Wrist-based, possibly non-invasive blood glucose monitoring is still some ways away from being reality, but now Huawei's on the case as well. Image: HWZ.
One of the things Huawei hopes to figure out is non-invasive blood glucose monitoring, a technology no consumer wearable is capable of yet, despite various attempts by the industry.
Huawei devices with TruSense technology will begin launching in September 2024.
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