Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced updates to the company’s Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses at Meta Connect 2024 on Wednesday. Meta continued to make the case that smart glasses can be the next big consumer device, announcing some new AI capabilities and familiar features from smartphones coming to Ray-Ban Meta later this year.
Some of Meta’s new features include real-time AI video processing and live language translation. Other announcements — like QR code scanning, reminders, and integrations with iHeartRadio and Audible — seem to give Ray-Ban Meta users the features from their smartphones that they already know and love.
Meta says its smart glasses will soon have real-time AI video capabilities, meaning you can ask the Ray-Ban Meta glasses questions about what you’re seeing in front of you, and Meta AI will verbally answer you in real time. Currently, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses can only take a picture and describe that to you or answer questions about it, but the video upgrade should make the experience more natural, in theory at least. These multimodal features are slated to come later this year.
In a demo, users could ask Ray-Ban Meta questions about a meal they were cooking, or city scenes taking place in front of them. The real-time video capabilities mean that Meta’s AI should be able to process live action and respond in an audible way.
This is easier said than done, however, and we’ll have to see how fast and seamless the feature is in practice. We’ve seen demonstrations of these real-time AI video capabilities from Google and OpenAI, but Meta would be the first to launch such features in a consumer product.
Zuckerberg also announced live language translation for Ray-Ban Meta. English-speaking users can talk to someone speaking French, Italian, or Spanish, and their Ray-Ban Meta glasses should be able to translate what the other person is saying into their language of choice. Meta says this feature is coming later this year and will include more language later on.
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are getting reminders, which will allow people to ask Meta AI to remind them about things they look at through the smart glasses. In a demo, a user asked their Ray-Ban Meta glasses to remember a jacket they were looking at so they could share the image with a friend later on.
Meta announced that integrations with Amazon Music, Audible, and iHeart are coming to its smart glasses. This should make it easier for people to listen to music on their streaming service of choice using the glasses’ built-in speakers.
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses will also gain the ability to scan QR codes or phone numbers from the glasses. Users can ask the glasses to scan something, and the QR code will immediately open on the person’s phone with no further action required.
The smart glasses will also be available in a range of new Transitions lenses, which respond to ultraviolet light to adjust to the brightness of the room you’re in.
YouTube is adding several new features for Premium users, including smart downloads and support for picture-in-picture mode for Shorts, as well as a wider rollout of its “Jump Ahead” feature for navigating through videos.
The Google-owned video streaming platform already allows background play and picture-in-picture mode for long-form videos so you can consume content while browsing other apps. The company is now extending this support to Shorts, starting with users on Android.
YouTube is also adding a “Jump ahead” button, which appears when users double-tap to skip.
When users tap on the button, YouTube jumps to the best parts of the video. The company uses a combination of viewer data and machine learning to identify these parts. The feature has been in testing since last month, and now it is rolling it out to all Android users in the U.S., with an iOS rollout scheduled in the next few weeks.
YouTube is also adding new experimental features for a limited time.
One includes a conversational AI tool Google first tested last year, allowing users to ask the chatbot questions related to the video or request to watch suggested content. The company is now bringing that back for Android users in the U.S.
In addition, the video streaming platform is adding smart download support for Shorts. This means that, based on your recent Shorts viewing history, YouTube will automatically download some short videos for offline viewing. Apart from these features, YouTube is testing a redesigned watch page on the desktop.
Earlier this year, YouTube said that, across Premium and Music, it has more than 100 million paid users around the world.
Samsung proved it could still offer up surprises when it capped off January’s Unpacked with the reveal of the Galaxy Ring. The brief teaser was understood to be key validation for the nascent wearable form factor. While the smart ring concept isn’t entirely new, the category has thus far been dominated by Oura.
At Unpacked 2024, the company shared more details about the Galaxy Ring, which represents the first take on the category from a hardware giant. Samsung has effectively beaten Apple, Google and the like to the punch, with a health and fitness device that slots in nicely with the rest of its health efforts. It can be preordered starting Wednesday at $399.
Image Credits: Samsung
Samsung has flirted with all number of different form factors; remember the IconX earbuds with built-in heart monitoring? Throughout the course of its efforts, however, everything always seems to come back to the Galaxy Watch. The addition of a ring to its wearable portfolio is promising for a couple of reasons. First, Oura and its ilk have already proved that plenty of customer interest exists. Second, the functionality here augments — rather than replaces — all of the stuff devices like the Galaxy Watch already do.
The ring design is limiting, with a sufficiently smaller footprint and no display. As such, these devices tend to take a more passive approach to tracking. Samsung describes it as “24/7 health monitoring,” owing plenty to a generous stated battery life of up to seven days — that is, not coincidentally, exactly how Oura rates its own ring.
Image Credits: Samsung
The Galaxy Ring is starting with the most passive of all health tracking: sleep. The device offers up a sleep “score” based on various metrics, including movement, heart rate and respiratory rate. It also performs cycle tracking based on the wearer’s skin temperature while sleeping. The product’s small size makes it a much less obtrusive sleeping buddy that a larger smartwatch.
Of course, there are some Galaxy AI implications here, as well, pulling together metrics from sleep, activity, sleeping heart rate and sleeping heart rate variability to pull together what Samsung calls “holistic insights and motivational encouragement.” Most intriguing of all, the aforementioned features are all available without a paid subscription. There’s no guarantee Samsung doesn’t go down that route eventually, but for now, that’s certainly a point it has over Oura’s $6 monthly fee.
The smart ring has long played second fiddle to the smart watch. While tech giants like Apple and Google duked it out over wrists for years, the ring has been significantly quieter, a space where plucky startups have a chance to make their mark.
Things are quickly changing, however. Samsung will debut its first finger-worn wellness tracker later this month, while Oura, the category’s (relatively) veteran startup, has been making a big push into retail.
With competition stepping up, Indian startup Ultrahuman‘s latest bundle of updates make a strong case for its place in the market. Notably, it’s now offering AFib (atrial fibrillation) detection with its Ring Air.
AFib detection will be a premium option — requiring a $4.90 monthly subscription.
The feature is powered by FibriCheck, a photoplethysmography (PPG)-based technique for taking a measure of heart rhythm based on applying a light source to the skin and measuring changes in blood volume as the heart pumps the fluid around the body. FibriCheck has been approved by the FDA and European medical device regulators.
AFib detection may already be familiar as it has been a flagship capability of Apple’s smart watch for several years — although Apple’s wrist-mounted wearable uses a different (but still regulator-approved) detection method that’s based on ECG (electrocardiogram).
Shoppers interested in getting a wearable are likely to be choosing between buying a smart watch or a smart ring, so the greater the functionality overlap the more potential uplift a gadget like Ultrahuman’s Ring Air could get.
Ultrahuman’s AFib detection feature is currently available in Australia, the EU, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, where it has gained regulatory approvals.
“We are working on making it available in the U.S. and Indian markets in the next two-three months,” Ultrahuman’s CEO and co-founder Mohit Kumar told TechCrunch.
How accurate is the feature? “We have conducted numerous tests to match the accuracy and the signal quality of the AFib detection algorithm and are treading carefully here given we have a higher level of responsibility here,” Kumar responded. “That’s why we’re only making this available where we have regulatory approvals and have tested the workflows for false positives and negative outcomes.
“The base detection algorithm runs with a sensitivity and specificity of 91.86% and 97.59%, respectively.”
Alongside the launch of AFib detection, Ultrahuman is opening up to third-party developers via what it’s calling “PowerPlugs,” a platform for individual apps and plug-ins built on top of its health and wellness data stack.
As with AFib detection, Ultrahuman claims this is a world first in a smart ring.
Interested developers will be able to use Ultrahuman’s SDK to draw on the wealth of health data it has flowing into its platform — via not just the ring but also the CGM (continuous glucose monitor) metabolic tracking service it also sells — to build and power other features users will be able to opt into via free or paid software plug-ins.
The startup’s push to achieve greater customization of the smart ring’s function by getting developers on board and building out more capabilities, is one way to scale serving the needs of an increasingly diverse user-base — as more consumers discover the potential of smart rings and consider jumping in.
It’s also a potential route to stoking innovation as rivalry in the space generally heats up if enough developers get on board with building apps and services for Ultrahuman’s platform.
“When it comes to health, one size doesn’t fit all,” Kumar added in a statement. “That’s why we built PowerPlugs for people to pick and choose what matters most for their health and wellness. Over the next few years, you could expect thousands of applications to be built on top of Ultrahuman’s comprehensive health data platform.
“Given our most comprehensive data stack of health markers from Ultrahuman Ring, M1 CGM, Ultrahuman Home and more to come, there’s infinite scope to build deep experiences over the next few years. Essentially, your Ultrahuman Ring will keep getting better after your purchase.”
The ring’s feature mix was also already getting a little cluttered, with multiple widgets displayed in the product’s tab in the app — some of which may be more or less interesting to the user (say overall sleep and recovery scores versus stimulant window recommendations, for example), as we pointed out in our review of the Ring Air last year.
With this update, users will be able to customize available features — picking and choosing widgets that make the most sense for them. “We just moved some existing features to PlugIns to make the UX cleaner,” confirms Kumar.
The development does not change Ultrahuman’s approach of not charging ring users a subscription to access core features.
The startup’s main smart ring rival, Oura, currently charges a monthly subscription. However, Samsung’s forthcoming smart ring is also set to be offered without a paid subscription — at least initially — so Ultrahuman soon won’t be the only player offering a subscription-free smart ring in many markets once the Korean giant’s Galaxy Ring arrives.
Kumar suggests there will be “loads” of free plug-ins, as well as confirming those features that were already freely available in the app — such as Vitamin D exposure tracking, the Caffeine Window feature, Circadian Alignment, Pregnancy insights and Cycle tracking — won’t require any additional cost. It will just be a subset of services that are premium (paid) bolt-ons.
“There are many new PowerPlugs that are going to be free and the thumb rule for paid ones is that where there is a direct third-party cost / regulatory approval costs etc.,” he said. “The core of the platform in terms of features is a no-subscription experience. Only a few new services (not features) might be paid to share and encourage third-party developers to develop more such capabilities through our SDK UltraSignal.”
What about privacy considerations for Ultrahuman’s users if third parties are gaining access to health data to build these additional services?
“We only send de-identified anonymized data to these services so there isn’t any risk of data privacy breach,” Kumar said.
“The bottom line is that we’ll see the platform experience being driven by Features,” he added, specifying these will be free. Whereas only add-on services will entail an additional cost — such as metabolic tracking by CGM hardware sensors; AFib detection (via regulated PPG); and Blood testing (aka Ultrahuman’s Blood Vision service which offers blood testing on demand by despatching a qualified phlebotomist to the customer’s house to draw blood).
“These require an additional cost + manual intervention in some cases and hence behave like a paid service,” he emphasized, adding, “At the very core, Ring Air is a subscription-free ring for all features and we intend to stick to this core principle.”
Smart ring maker Ultrahuman has its eye on Oura’s crown
YouTube is adding several new features for Premium users, including smart downloads and support for picture-in-picture mode for Shorts, as well as a wider rollout of its “Jump Ahead” feature for navigating through videos.
The Google-owned video streaming platform already allows background play and picture-in-picture mode for long-form videos so you can consume content while browsing other apps. The company is now extending this support to Shorts, starting with users on Android.
YouTube is also adding a “Jump ahead” button, which appears when users double-tap to skip.
When users tap on the button, YouTube jumps to the best parts of the video. The company uses a combination of viewer data and machine learning to identify these parts. The feature has been in testing since last month, and now it is rolling it out to all Android users in the U.S., with an iOS rollout scheduled in the next few weeks.
YouTube is also adding new experimental features for a limited time.
One includes a conversational AI tool Google first tested last year, allowing users to ask the chatbot questions related to the video or request to watch suggested content. The company is now bringing that back for Android users in the U.S.
In addition, the video streaming platform is adding smart download support for Shorts. This means that, based on your recent Shorts viewing history, YouTube will automatically download some short videos for offline viewing. Apart from these features, YouTube is testing a redesigned watch page on the desktop.
Earlier this year, YouTube said that, across Premium and Music, it has more than 100 million paid users around the world.
The smart ring has long played second fiddle to the smart watch. While tech giants like Apple and Google duked it out over wrists for years, the ring has been significantly quieter, a space where plucky startups have a chance to make their mark.
Things are quickly changing, however. Samsung will debut its first finger-worn wellness tracker later this month, while Oura, the category’s (relatively) veteran startup, has been making a big push into retail.
With competition stepping up, Indian startup Ultrahuman‘s latest bundle of updates make a strong case for its place in the market. Notably, it’s now offering AFib (atrial fibrillation) detection with its Ring Air.
AFib detection will be a premium option — requiring a $4.90 monthly subscription.
The feature is powered by FibriCheck, a photoplethysmography (PPG)-based technique for taking a measure of heart rhythm based on applying a light source to the skin and measuring changes in blood volume as the heart pumps the fluid around the body. FibriCheck has been approved by the FDA and European medical device regulators.
AFib detection may already be familiar as it has been a flagship capability of Apple’s smart watch for several years — although Apple’s wrist-mounted wearable uses a different (but still regulator-approved) detection method that’s based on ECG (electrocardiogram).
Shoppers interested in getting a wearable are likely to be choosing between buying a smart watch or a smart ring, so the greater the functionality overlap the more potential uplift a gadget like Ultrahuman’s Ring Air could get.
Ultrahuman’s AFib detection feature is currently available in Australia, the EU, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, where it has gained regulatory approvals.
“We are working on making it available in the U.S. and Indian markets in the next two-three months,” Ultrahuman’s CEO and co-founder Mohit Kumar told TechCrunch.
How accurate is the feature? “We have conducted numerous tests to match the accuracy and the signal quality of the AFib detection algorithm and are treading carefully here given we have a higher level of responsibility here,” Kumar responded. “That’s why we’re only making this available where we have regulatory approvals and have tested the workflows for false positives and negative outcomes.
“The base detection algorithm runs with a sensitivity and specificity of 91.86% and 97.59%, respectively.”
Alongside the launch of AFib detection, Ultrahuman is opening up to third-party developers via what it’s calling “PowerPlugs,” a platform for individual apps and plug-ins built on top of its health and wellness data stack.
As with AFib detection, Ultrahuman claims this is a world first in a smart ring.
Interested developers will be able to use Ultrahuman’s SDK to draw on the wealth of health data it has flowing into its platform — via not just the ring but also the CGM (continuous glucose monitor) metabolic tracking service it also sells — to build and power other features users will be able to opt into via free or paid software plug-ins.
The startup’s push to achieve greater customization of the smart ring’s function by getting developers on board and building out more capabilities, is one way to scale serving the needs of an increasingly diverse user-base — as more consumers discover the potential of smart rings and consider jumping in.
It’s also a potential route to stoking innovation as rivalry in the space generally heats up if enough developers get on board with building apps and services for Ultrahuman’s platform.
“When it comes to health, one size doesn’t fit all,” Kumar added in a statement. “That’s why we built PowerPlugs for people to pick and choose what matters most for their health and wellness. Over the next few years, you could expect thousands of applications to be built on top of Ultrahuman’s comprehensive health data platform.
“Given our most comprehensive data stack of health markers from Ultrahuman Ring, M1 CGM, Ultrahuman Home and more to come, there’s infinite scope to build deep experiences over the next few years. Essentially, your Ultrahuman Ring will keep getting better after your purchase.”
The ring’s feature mix was also already getting a little cluttered, with multiple widgets displayed in the product’s tab in the app — some of which may be more or less interesting to the user (say overall sleep and recovery scores versus stimulant window recommendations, for example), as we pointed out in our review of the Ring Air last year.
With this update, users will be able to customize available features — picking and choosing widgets that make the most sense for them. “We just moved some existing features to PlugIns to make the UX cleaner,” confirms Kumar.
The development does not change Ultrahuman’s approach of not charging ring users a subscription to access core features.
The startup’s main smart ring rival, Oura, currently charges a monthly subscription. However, Samsung’s forthcoming smart ring is also set to be offered without a paid subscription — at least initially — so Ultrahuman soon won’t be the only player offering a subscription-free smart ring in many markets once the Korean giant’s Galaxy Ring arrives.
Kumar suggests there will be “loads” of free plug-ins, as well as confirming those features that were already freely available in the app — such as Vitamin D exposure tracking, the Caffeine Window feature, Circadian Alignment, Pregnancy insights and Cycle tracking — won’t require any additional cost. It will just be a subset of services that are premium (paid) bolt-ons.
“There are many new PowerPlugs that are going to be free and the thumb rule for paid ones is that where there is a direct third-party cost / regulatory approval costs etc.,” he said. “The core of the platform in terms of features is a no-subscription experience. Only a few new services (not features) might be paid to share and encourage third-party developers to develop more such capabilities through our SDK UltraSignal.”
What about privacy considerations for Ultrahuman’s users if third parties are gaining access to health data to build these additional services?
“We only send de-identified anonymized data to these services so there isn’t any risk of data privacy breach,” Kumar said.
“The bottom line is that we’ll see the platform experience being driven by Features,” he added, specifying these will be free. Whereas only add-on services will entail an additional cost — such as metabolic tracking by CGM hardware sensors; AFib detection (via regulated PPG); and Blood testing (aka Ultrahuman’s Blood Vision service which offers blood testing on demand by despatching a qualified phlebotomist to the customer’s house to draw blood).
“These require an additional cost + manual intervention in some cases and hence behave like a paid service,” he emphasized, adding, “At the very core, Ring Air is a subscription-free ring for all features and we intend to stick to this core principle.”
Smart ring maker Ultrahuman has its eye on Oura’s crown
CES never disappoints when it comes to gadgets for pets. And Invoxia is going all out by releasing a new smart collar called Invoxia Minitailz that is suitable for both cats and dogs. The company said that this gadget is an upgrade from last year’s Invoxia Smart Dog Collar, which measured both location and biometrics like the heart rate of your dog.
The Minitailz weighs around 36 grams, compared to last year’s Smart Dog Collar, which weighed in at 130 g. The company said the weight makes it ideal for both cats and dogs. Plus, it can be fitted to almost any existing cat or dog collar through an adjustable ring.
Image Credits: Invoxia
For location tracking, the device uses a built-in SIM and GPS tech to measure movements in almost real time. The company claims that Minitailz can measure walks, runs, and even daily zoomies.
Invoxia’s Minitailz device’s companion app shows you health and activity data about your pet. Image Credits: Invoxia
The pet tracker can also measure and detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) so that you can know if your pet has an issue related to irregular heartbeat. The French company said that if the device detects any anomaly, it sends an alert to you.
Because we are in 2024, it is almost a given that any product that displays data in an app will have some kind of generative AI element. The Minitailz app has a conversational GenAI agent that creates personalized pet reports and answer any questions about them.
There are plenty of dog collars that measure canine health and location. But for the last few years, we have seen companies like Catlog make products for cat health.
Invoxia’s Minitailz smart pet tracker for dogs goes on sale today and the cat version will be available in March 2024. Both versions are priced at $99 for the hardware and a subscription for SIM services starts at $8.30 per month.
Samsung wants to make the smart home smarter — if your home’s a Samsung home, that is.
During its CES 2024 keynote in Las Vegas tonight, the company announced a range of additions to — and capabilities for — its SmartThings home automation platform. A new dashboard screen, Now Plus, is headed to select Samsung TVs, programmed to turn on as you approach to display info about smart home devices and stats like the current indoor temperature. Accompanying it is a new “quick panel” with access to shortcuts for controlling connected devices, as well as functions like finding misplaced smartphones and other mobile gadgets.
Image Credits: Samsung
Elsewhere, Samsung launched a new “map view” for SmartThings similar to Amazon’s recently launched Map View. Samsung’s take shows an interactive map of your home complete with the location of any smart home devices (e.g. washing machines, refrigerators and so on) within. Maps can be created manually or automatically with the help of a photo of an existing floor plan or with a lidar-enabled Samsung device, like the company’s forthcoming Ballie robot or new JetBot robot vacuum.
In a cute (or creepy, depending on your point of view) touch, the new SmartThings maps show “AI characters” that stand in for family members and pets inside the home. The animated avatars “respond” to real-time conditions, for example appearing to sweat if the house gets too warm.
Image Credits: Samsung
Maps have to be generated using the SmartThings app on a smartphone or tablet. But once that’s done, they’ll display on supported Samsung TVs, the screen of the Samsung Family Hub smart fridge and Samsung’s M8 monitors.
If the clams could speak, what would they say? Surely we all ask ourselves this question every day. But a French startup is going further, allowing bivalves like clams, mussels and oysters to act as all-natural water quality inspectors. MolluSCAN was showing off its tech this year at CES 2024 in Las Vegas.
The company began as a research project some 15 years ago at the University of Bordeaux. CEO and co-founder Ludovic Quinault and his team were looking into monitoring the health of bivalves, a category of marine animals found all over the world in both fresh and salt water. As largely stationary filter feeders, they are quite in tune with their surroundings, and their habits are affected by things like temperature, pollution and so on.
Quinault found that a simple, non-invasive sensor attached to the clam or oyster’s shell can monitor everything from feeding to reproduction and stress responses like suddenly shutting or failing to open at the normal time. These in turn are excellent predictors of various qualities in the water, and can act as an early warning system for problems like toxic substances. The mollusc doesn’t know whether it’s closing because of crude oil residue or an algae bloom, but it intuits that the water is unsafe for life and shuts up. In fact, Ludovic has found that they are extremely sensitive to small changes that chemical analysis may not even pick up reliably.
That’s one signal among many that can be told by monitoring bivalves, and after more than a decade of research, Quinault and his team are aiming to commercialize the technology, forming molluSCAN in March of 2023.
Water quality is of course very important to governments, park rangers and many industries, but the process of sampling and testing it is rarely convenient. It’s usually impractical to put testing apparatus at multiple places in a body of water, so usually people have to go out and collect samples, then bring them to a central location to be analyzed.
Image Credits: molluSCAN
The molluSCAN-eye system won’t replace traditional water monitoring, but as a living part of the water ecosystem, its health and the health of its surroundings are closely linked. So oysters doing well in one branch of a river but not another, or mussels suddenly snapping shut in some places after a spill — both these are complementary signals to ordinary testing and could also help direct resources to places where they are particularly needed. The system that monitors clusters of animals is totally self-contained and can operate without any maintenance for more than three years, he said.
Since their debut last spring, molluSCAN has landed two regular customers and has three more in talks, though they also have over a dozen science-focused installations around Europe. Quinault is hoping that municipalities and natural resource authorities will shell out for the tech as a totally natural, harmless and low-touch way to watch their waterways.
Do frontline workers — workers providing essential services like healthcare — use radios? They once did. But with the advent of affordable smartphones and service, radios have slowly, steadily given way to voice and video chat apps on mobile. According to one recent survey, 44% of frontline workers now use push to talk — “walkie talkie” functionality, essentially — on their smartphones.
Despite the trend, there remains a robust market for two-way worker radios. At least, that’s according to Kevin Turpin, the co-founder and CEO of Weavix, a startup that sells radios and software aimed at helping companies manage and communicate with their frontline workforces.
“With innovation happening in the frontline worker market, I realized the opportunity to build a solution that enables both the worker and management to drive organizational change,” Turpin told TechCrunch in an email interview. “The Weavix platform connects the disconnected workforce through communication and data to transform frontline engagement and efficiency at scale.”
Founded in 2022, Weavix differentiates itself from “smart” radios — cellular- and Wi-Fi-based radios with a built-in screen and GPS. Weavix’s radios support live and recorded video messaging and text messaging in addition to features like translation and transcription. On the back end, managers can send alerts to groups of radios as well as organize and analyze incidents reported by workers — directing workers to where they need to be.
Image Credits: Weavix
“In spite of the ubiquity of personal devices in today’s society, frontline workers often face the contrary situation on the job,” Turpin said. “Failing to equip each worker with an electronic device represents a missed opportunity for the organization to gather vital data and overcome serious communication barriers.”
Investors seem to agree with that premise — and approve of Weavix’s business model, which is user-license-based.
Weavix today announced that it raised $23.6 million in a funding round led by Insight Partners, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $33.6 million. Co-founder and CEO Kevin Turpin said that it’ll be put toward scaling operations in the U.S. and expanding Weavix’s staff to over 150 people by the end of the year.
Was Insight convinced by Weavix’s tech, customer momentum or both? Tough to say without a closer look at the books. But on the customer momentum front, Weavix appears to be doing well for itself — the company has “multiple” Fortune 500 clients in manufacturing, food and beverage production, commercial construction and energy and hospitality industries, according to Turpin.
Weavix faces competition from Origami Labs, which is similarly developing “smart” radios for frontline workers. But Insight Partners’ Grace Kotick, VP, asserts that Weavix is one of the few that offers a lifetime warranty for its devices and a “data-driven platform.”
“Weavix’s mobile device for the frontline worker is a game-changer,” she said in an emailed statement. “Their smart radios and corresponding software unlock a new level of connectivity and productivity for the frontline workforce. Their blend of hardware, software, and enhanced networking has transformed communications for those who need it most.”
