Google offers various “services” apps on the Play Store, and today’s latest supports Pixel Watch’s health capabilities.
The Play Store description, with a generic settings gear app icon, for Google Pixel Watch Services says it “provides your watch with improved algorithms for processing sensors.” This approach means that full system updates are not required to make improvements, with 1.0.9139874 the current version.
The name of the package is com.google.android.wearable.fitbit.mcu.data, with Fitbit’s James Park on Thursday noting how the “Pixel Watch uses a combination of on-device machine learning and deep optimization, until at the processor level, to give you an accurate measurement of your heart rate continuously at once per second.As a reminder, this is the SoC Exynos 9110 and a Cortex M33 co-processor.
The machine learning teams at Fitbit and Google have been working on this, with the former claiming it’s its “most accurate heart rate tracking yet”. In marketing, this internal second is equivalent to “following[ing] heart rate as time.
The creation process involved taking thousands of hours of training data and applying machine learning to “extract all common patterns both in daily life during their daily exercises, learning to reject noise and , in the end, generate an accurate heart rate”.
Meanwhile, the Pixel Watch will get fall detection in 2023 and can alert emergency services if needed.
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