Fitbit, now a Google model, is reportedly engaged on a wearable system for preteens. Business Insider reports that it’s internally code-named Project Eleven. The workforce behind the gadget goals to “help older kids form healthy relationships with their phones and social media.”

Google’s Australian Fitbit workforce is heading the venture. The system can have GPS and mobile connectivity—a leg up over the present kid-centric Fitbit units just like the Ace 3, which solely monitor exercise. The wearable may also supply location monitoring and the flexibility to name an grownup with the contact of a button. The system gained’t require a smartphone to work on the go.

As with the remainder of the Fitbit lineup, Project Eleven will “encourage physical activity” akin to the Ace 3, which presently allows exercise monitoring and buzzes each 50 minutes to remind children to stand up and transfer. The system will launch someday in 2024, although an worker talked about within the report confused that there’s nonetheless work to do earlier than the system can come to fruition.

Fitbit is excited about courting children to ascertain them as future prospects. “They talk a lot about wanting to engage the teen market,” an worker informed Business Insider.

Google acquired Fitbit a yr in the past. It has lengthy had its Wear OS platform for Android customers desirous to tether a smartwatch, however it lacked the health and activity-tracking experience that helped different smartwatches succeed within the trade. Last week, Fitbit introduced in a blog post that it might maintain on to its iconic moniker even because it develops new units beneath Google.

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At this level, I’m not notably bothered about monitoring a toddler round city. I’ve written earlier than that I can see the profit in it with my youngster. The system I geared up her with even lets me remotely name for assist to her location. Smartwatches just like the Apple Watch already assist monitor children via GPS with out tethering a smartphone, whereas carriers like Verizon supply the Gizmo smartwatch to offer children a option to name house from their wrist.

I’m a bit involved in regards to the fitness-centric branding of Fitbit, nevertheless, because it pertains to children—notably preteens. Eating disorders are widespread amongst that age group, and a smartwatch or bracelet health tracker is usually a vital set off for disordered consuming. The Fitbit Ace 3 doesn’t presently depend energy for youths. Hopefully, Fitbit retains it that manner, regardless of the dad and mom desperately asking for a calorie counter.