We are witnessing how innovations in technology are leveraged to bring dynamic and active lifestyle changes, into our routines. From smart homes and cars to grooming and personal care, we already have discussed on myriads of applications available in the market today, which makes our life easier, faster, and competitive.

Smart wearables is one of the most trending industry today, where high-end technologies are made use of to bring innovations to our daily life. With artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and the highest speed networking, smart wearables open an extensive arena that helps anyone focus on various factors from personal health and wellness to business management. This developing industry has the potential to transform how data can be streamed to enhance our social, personal and professional life.

 

Smart Fitness Bands

 

The advent of smart wearables started back with fitness bands, which was a quick successor of pedometers. The basic fitness back then was used to count the steps and help track activity levels. From which it has now advanced with sophisticated features, making it no lesser to a smartwatch. Most fitness trackers are connected to a smartphone app, which gives you clear analytics on many physical parameters ranging from cardiac performance to metabolisms rates.

 

The Advent of Smartwatches

 

Smartwatches are much advanced than normal fitness bands. Along with tracking your footsteps and fitness, smartwatches are capable of managing messages, email, getting alerted on your meeting schedules and calls eliminating holding your phone in hand always. You can get quick updates of your social media handles and even read through the news with your smartphone.

 

Wearing The Smart Clothing

 

While smartwatches and fitness bands are the most common wearables used around the globe, smart jewelry, clothing, sunglasses, and other head-mounted displays (HMDs) are also getting into the trend.

Smart clothing come with much advanced features. There cloths that are even capable of identifying your respiratory patterns and forecast many health issues you may need to keep an eye on. The smart socks that detect foot ulcers and even swimsuits that alert you when to apply sunscreens are already available on market. One of the most famous Denim brands has already experimented on their Jeans with location tracking functionality.

 

Getting Chic With Smart Jewelry

 

When it comes to smart jewelry, smart rings are the most popular ones. They collects many health tracking data that can be further analyzed through your smartphone. Apart from that, smart bangles and bracelets are also available in the market. Smart sunglasses which act as AR or VR devices are the latest updates to HMD(Head Mounted Device), allowing one to interact with the virtual reality world and the real-life environment simultaneously.

Besides, several medical types of equipment are a part of the wearable industry. From hearing aids to, wireless EEG headsets and remote patient monitoring devices, these equipment are a boon to advancements in the medical field.

Amphenol's focus on innovation enables us to provide our customers an array of miniature, high-performance interconnect solutions for next-generation wearable devices. Our range of extremely small pitch Board-to-Board connectors and FFC/FPC connectors go into the micro PCBs embedded into these tiny pieces of equipment. As most of the wearables are sleek and stylish, our connectors offer maximum design flexibility, space-savings, and enhanced performance.

Our high-speed USB connectors help to quick charge the wearables and their waterproof versions let them stay protected from water ingress. Amphenol also provides small pitch wire-to-board connectors that are seamlessly woven into smart fabrics and high speed input-output connectors like HDMI version 2.0 that helps us to experience immersive virtual reality from the VR headsets.

Check out our application page to know more about Amphenol’s modern solutions for the emerging wearable industry.