Modern smart watches: applications and functionality

Smart watch can be briefly described as a multifunctional electronic device for wearing on the wrist. Depending on the functions laid down by manufacturers in a particular model, smart watches find their application in many areas of human activity:

• playing sports;
• tourism;
• active pastime;
• communication and communication;
• Ensuring the safety of children and elderly family members.

What kinds of smart watches are found on the market?

Depending on the level of equipment and performance, smart watches can perform the following functions.

1. Act as a timer, alarm clock, calculator, audio player, electronic notebook, GPS navigator, browser, tonometer.
2. Remotely connect to smartphoneusually via Bluetooth technology.
3. Function like a phone (outgoing and incoming calls, messages).
4. Monitor heart rate, inform about the quality of sleep, distance traveled and speed of movement.
5. Be used as means of remote payment from a bank card for goods and services.
6. They will help to find a smartphone lost in the cinema, restaurant or a guest.
7. Give references about temperature, humidity and other weather parameters, height above sea level, traffic jams, currency exchange rates and other important information.

All the diversity of the smart wrist electronics offered by the market is conventionally divided into two groups: analog and digital.

Analog Digital Watch equipped with a certain set of functions that are very limited in features. As a rule, in such a smart watch there is additional equipment that records and notifies of events in the paired smartphone and sensors that track the activity of the owner of the device.There may also be a function of remote control of the player or even the camera of the smartphone. According to its capabilities, analog chronometers are closer to smart bracelets.

Digital smart watch built on its own computational core, consisting of a processor and RAM. More advanced models are running an operating system, equipped with user memory, wireless network adapters, a slot for a sim card.

Important! Equipped with a sim-card accessory can be used without a smartphone.

The capabilities of such models are not limited to the programs laid down by the manufacturer. The user can expand the functionality of the device by installing third-party applications on a synchronized Android or iOS smartphone, as well as on the clock itself.

Currently, the smart watch uses three versions of the OS.

1. Watchos - This is an operating platform from Apple. Used only on wrist products exclusively by this company.
2. Tizen - operational software from Samsung. The platform is compatible exclusively with the gadgets of this brand.
3. Android Wear - the most common system from Google. It is considered the best for smart hours.The software provides compatibility with smartphones running on the most common Android and iOS operating systems.

What is the difference between smart watches and fitness bracelets

Both mobile devices (smart watches and fitness trackers) are designed to be worn on the wrist and can be synchronized with a smartphone via Bluetooth to perform certain functions. Many functional devices related to the functions of tracking the state of the body of the owner, are similar. The difference in the convenience of viewing informationissued by sensors, dimensions and weight, as well as in the price of devices.

Fitness bracelets work, like analog smart watches, in conjunction with a smartphone. In the middle price segment, the potential of devices is almost the same. The advantages of digital smart watches are tangible in that in some cases they can be used without a smartphone, practically fulfilling many of its functions for it. But the price of such gadgets is large enough. The digital smart gadget is essentially a mini computer on the wrist.

The mechanism for synchronizing smart watches with a smartphone

The audience of smart watches is quite diverse: active young people, business people, caring for their younger and older household members.And all users need to understand how to synchronize a gadget with a smartphone.

Any model of the wrist unit is equipped with software and hardware for interfacing with a smartphone. Usually synchronization via Bluetooth modules of both devices. The procedure is as follows.

1. It is necessary to download to the smartphone corresponding watch model app-companion (Search for an application in the app store). For Android smartphones, this is the Play Store.
2. Before the synchronization setup procedure, you should make sure that the wrist gadget is charged. Turn on the clock, enter the settings mode and launch the application on the smartphone, open the “Configure” tab.
3. Some time to wait - the smartphone on the screen should highlight the name of the found watch model. It should open the device found.
4. To pair with the clock, the system will offer to perform the corresponding action (Press the “connect” or “synchronize” button) to initiate the process.
5. After connecting the devices, it is necessary to perform all the control settings required by the operating instructions.

How smart watches work

A number of advanced models of smart watches that work with SIM cards, are quite independently able to cope with the tasks, allowing the owners:

• receive and answer incoming calls;
• make outgoing calls;
• accept and send SMS and notifications;
• use mobile internet.

Important! More fully, the potential of a smart wrist accessory is revealed in conjunction with a smartphone.

So, from the clock you can remotely control the player and the camera of the smartphone, view on its screen the information processed by the corresponding application transmitted from the sensors of the wrist gadget. Also from smartphones, you can use many other useful functions of smart watches. Manufacturers offer interesting opportunities in the niche of devices for children.

Appointment and capabilities of children's smart watches

Children need smart watches for ensure their safety. Manufacturers offer a wide range of specialized models for children and elderly people. The devices are made in an attractive convenient design, the functionality is simplified. In equipping such gadgets there is a slot for a SIM card and a GPS module. In synchronization with the parent's smartphone, the clock transmits the coordinates of the child’s location, the route of his movements, which allows adults to control where he is. At any time, the child can call mom or dad and ask for help. Also, parents can call and give valuable guidance.

In the children's smart watches there is such a useful feature as "safety zone". Its meaning is to set the boundaries of a certain space (yard, house territory, for example), which the parents forbid to leave the child. In case of violation of borders, the watch will be sent to the smartphone of the parent SMS. There are other useful features.

1. Set up a circle of people who can call your child’s watch.
2. Function hidden callback (parents can set the clock to redial on a smartphone and listen to what is happening in the child’s environment without attracting attention with incoming call signals);
3. Sensor removing the device from the hand. The watch instantly responds with a signal to the parent's smartphone, when the device is removed from the hand for some reason.
4. All children's watches are equipped with SOS button, clicking on which initiates an emergency call to the phone of the parent.

The most popular smart watch of 2018

Apple Watch Series 3

Garmin Forerunner 230 HRM watches

Amazfit Bip Watch

Samsung Gear S3 Frontier Watch

Smart Baby Watch Q50 Watch

Conclusion

The world of smart watches is diverse. As part of a brief excursion it is difficult to tell all about smart watches. Decide for yourself, buy and use smart watches or do without them, everyone should decide on their own. The choice of model is recommended to be based on the target moments of using the gadget: choose a device for specific goals with various performance parameters and functionality.