Following within the footsteps of different conventional watchmakers, Citizen launched its first smartwatch, the CZ Smart, a few years in the past, however it was missing any of the modern options the corporate is typically recognized for. Its follow-up, nonetheless, is leaning extra into well being metrics, serving to customers know once they’re drained and recommending methods to enhance their alertness.

Smartwatches had been initially positioned as wearable second screens for smartphones however ultimately discovered success by increasing what made health trackers so well-liked. Instead of simply counting steps and maintaining tabs on a wearer’s exercises, smartwatches can now additionally hold an eye fixed out for severe well being issues by monitoring coronary heart fee and electrocardiogram information, or by merely detecting severe falls or accidents.

As the smartwatch market will get an increasing number of crowded, customers appear to care much less a couple of long-established model identify like Citizen, and extra about how a wearable system may probably save their lives. That’s why the Apple Watch can now hook up with satellites and ship out emergency SOS messages, and why Citizen has now teamed up with IBM and NASA for a brand new model of its smartwatch, the CZ Smart YouQ. The system now features a customized app that gives customers with insights about when they need to be resting, or when could be a super time to hit the fitness center.

After a couple of week or so on the wrist, the brand new CZ Smart YouQ makes use of all the info it’s collected in regards to the wearer—details about their sleep schedule, patterns of motion and bodily exercise, and coronary heart fee—to find out their chronotype; a kind of schedule of when somebody is of course inclined to sleep, and because of that timing, once they could be most alert in the course of the day. For instance, an evening owl who goes to mattress late and sleeps in will in all probability be most alert and energetic later within the day, somewhat than within the morning.

In addition to the info passively collected by the smartwatch’s sensors, the CZ Smart YouQ additionally offers customers with day by day alertness checks based mostly on the Psychomotor Vigilance Task Test that NASA administers to astronauts on the house station. But for the reason that watch is designed to be worn on Earth the place the stakes aren’t fairly as excessive, the alertness checks are extra like easy video games that assist the Smart YouQ app higher perceive the wearer’s fatigue degree at totally different instances.

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Once the CZ Smart YouQ has decided the wearer’s chronotype (which is consistently being refined and improved as extra information is collected over time) the smartwatch will advocate customized “Power Fixes” that are “suggested actions and activities to help the wearer mitigate the effects of fatigue, improve alertness, and promote the building of better habits.” The watch may also bear in mind how efficient these recommendations had been at enhancing a wearer’s alertness, and counsel alternate options sooner or later in the event that they weren’t.

The second era of the Citizen CZ Smart can be obtainable within the U.S. beginning in March and can characteristic two distinct designs: a less complicated 41-millimeter informal mannequin that can vary in worth from $350 to $435 relying on the end, shade, and strap kind chosen, in addition to a bigger 44-millimeter sport mannequin with numbers on the bezel and worth starting from $375 to $435 relying on its end and strap. All fashions of the brand new CZ Smart YouQ characteristic a 1.28-inch, 326 PPI AMOLED show, Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear4100+ processor, and can run Google’s Wear OS.