MobiHealth News July 21, 2023
Edward Shi and Paras Unadkat, product managers at Google, tell MobiHealthNews how their teams worked together to build the Pixel Watch’s fall-detection features.
Tech giant Google announced in March that it added fall detection capabilities to its Pixel Watch, which uses sensors to determine if a user has taken a hard fall.
If the watch doesn’t sense a user’s movement for around 30 seconds, it vibrates, sounds an alarm and displays prompts for a user to select if they’re okay or need assistance. The watch notifies emergency services if no response is chosen after a minute.
In part one of our two-part series, Edward Shi, product manager on the personal safety team of Android and Pixel at Google, and...
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