Samsung Electronics improves its popular features related to physical and emotional well-being with Artificial Intelligence resources offered by the Galaxy Watch, with support from Samsung Heath. This opens up new possibilities with optimized and connected experiences in favor of greater personalization and intelligence.
Earlier this year, Samsung established the era of mobile AI with the launch of the Galaxy S24 series, and pledged to introduce Galaxy AI[1] on a wider range of devices. True to this promise, Samsung now brings Galaxy AI to the Galaxy Watch, enhancing its popular health features. By combining powerful on-device AI with the extensive Samsung Health app, Samsung is on its way to creating some of the most personalized and safe health experiences to date.
▲ With the Galaxy Watch, Samsung adds AI-based resources for the most personalized and safe health to date.
Advanced intelligence for a more holistic vision and motivation
Samsung is on a mission to deliver an advanced health and wellness experience, starting with using meaningful, actionable insights to help you better understand your health patterns. Now, by combining Galaxy AI with Samsung Health, new health features will give you more comprehensive health information, along with motivational stimuli, to help you improve your daily well-being. With Energy Score (Energy Score)[2]you can get a better understanding of your daily health status through a combined analysis of personal health metrics, such as average sleep hours, regularity of sleep hours, regularity of bedtimes and wake-up times, sleep schedule, previous day’s activity, heart rate during sleep, and heart rate variability[3] to help you face the day. Besides, the Wellness Tips (to be determined)[4] helps you achieve your personal health goals by offering ideas, motivational tips and guidance based on the specific goal you want to achieve.
▲ Energy Score helps you do a combined analysis of personal health metrics.
Greater precision and accuracy
Accuracy and completeness of health metrics are critical to delivering the best smart health experiences. Improved health algorithms and advanced tracking tools will provide more holistic, personalized and actionable information when combined with AI. Since good health begins with a good night’s rest, Samsung is improving our sleep AI algorithm to provide additional in-depth information about this night’s rest. Newly added sleep indicators for Sleep Insights They give you a more detailed and accurate analysis of your sleep quality so you can better understand your sleeping patterns and develop better habits. These added metrics include the movement during sleep, sleep latency, heart rate and respiratory rate during sleepin addition to previously supported metrics such as snoring hours, blood oxygen level, and sleep cycle.
New fitness features offer smart, effortless measurements of physical capacity for more personalized training, traditionally provided by highly advanced equipment. In addition to the five Personalized Health Rate Zone running intensity levels, new detailed Aerobic Threshold (AT) / Anaerobic Threshold (AnT) of the Heart Rate Zone[5] They help you run efficiently while quickly analyzing performance. Additionally, cyclists can easily calculate performance metrics. Functional Threshold Power (FTP) in just 10 minutes[6] and train like a pro using a personalized power index based on AI data analysis to maximize performance. Fitness tracking tools also help you monitor workouts and progress more conveniently. With the new function Workout Routine (training routine), combine multiple exercises for a personalized workout and move on to the next exercise without interruption. Stay motivated and track your running or cycling progress using race[7]which compares current and past performance on the same routes.
▲ Samsung Health motivational messages and tips are part of the smart benefits
“By expanding the power of Galaxy AI across our ecosystem, we aim to unlock all new possibilities with streamlined, connected experiences that offer users greater personalization and intelligence,” said June Park, Vice President and Head of Product Planning Team. of the Galaxy Ecosystem, MX Business at Samsung Electronics. “The addition of Galaxy AI to Galaxy Watch is just the beginning of this process and we are excited to show off even more integrations across our Galaxy portfolio very soon.”
These new features will be available on the upcoming Galaxy Watch line through One UI 6 Watch, available later this year. A limited number of Galaxy Watch users will have early access to the beta program[8] starting in June. This is just a small sample of what we have in store for our users, and we look forward to showcasing the full power of Galaxy AI when integrated with the advanced hardware upgrades coming to the new Galaxy Watch series. Stay tuned to find out more.
[1] Samsung account sign-in may be required for certain Samsung AI features. Samsung does not promise, guarantee or guarantee the accuracy, completeness or reliability of the results provided by the AI functions. Availability of Galaxy AI features may vary depending on device model. Galaxy AI features will be provided for free until the end of 2025 on supported Samsung Galaxy devices. Different terms may apply to AI features provided by third parties.
[2] Designed exclusively for general well-being and fitness. Available on Android phones (Android Operating System 10 or higher) and requires the Samsung Health app (v6.27 or higher). You need to sign in to your Samsung account. To check Energy Score, health data recorded from Galaxy Watch (Galaxy Watch4 or later released Galaxy Watch series) must be synced with the Samsung Health app. You need at least activity and sleep data from the previous day, and heart rate data during sleep.
[3] It is not intended to replace traditional methods of diagnosis or treatment.
[4] Available on Android phones (Android Operating System 10 or higher) and requires the Samsung Health app (v6.27 or higher). You need to sign in to your Samsung account. It is not intended to be used in the detection, diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. The result is for personal reference only. Consult a professional doctor.
[5] Heart Rate Zone customization enabled when selecting outdoor running activity. Constant running for more than 10 minutes at speeds of 4 km/h or more is required.
[6] To measure custom FTP, your Galaxy smartphone must be connected to a power meter. To calculate a more accurate FTP, you need to connect Galaxy Watch to a smartphone. FTP is automatically calculated when cycling at a medium-high intensity level for more than 4 minutes with the cycling power meter attached to the bike. Using machine learning, the more users mount repeatedly, the more accurate and personalized the FTP values will be calculated. Cycling power meter sold separately. The duration of traditional FTP analysis on professional computers is up to 1 hour on average.
[7] Race is available for outdoor running and outdoor cycling. To perform comparative measurements, it needs to be run on the same path as the previously generated path. Users can compare by selecting one of the records from a period of up to 14 days. Record comparison via Race is only available when starting at the same location as the start point of the previous record. It will automatically convert to run mode if the starting points are different.
[8] The One UI 6 Watch beta program will be available to Galaxy Watch4, Galaxy Watch4 Classic, Galaxy Watch5, Galaxy Watch5 Pro, Galaxy Watch6, and Galaxy Watch6 Classic users in the United States and Korea through the Samsung Members app.
