Popular smart ring maker Ultrahuman is asking users to share their personal sleep data to improve its health models. The wearable maker has introduced a new research program called Pulsomics, which it has built directly into the main application. The new program allows customers to voluntarily submit their nighttime pulse signals and other biomarker readings. The company says it’ll help researchers train better health algorithms using real everyday metrics.
Ultrahuman is gathering sleep data of Ring users to fix common blind spots
Ultrahuman says most wearable health tracking products suffer from a well-known accuracy problem. Researchers train the software on a small and highly controlled group of users in a lab setting. Due to the limited user data, the tracking rarely accounts for diversity in skin tones, body composition, and a wider range of metrics.
However, Ultrahuman’s Pulsomics program aims to resolve this problem by collecting information from a much larger and more diverse pool of users. Once a Ring user joins a study, the brand’s application quietly collects their nightly pulse readings. Then it compares them with daily lifestyle habits of a large number of other users.
The company mentioned that by analyzing sleep and health data of hundreds of thousands of regular users, it can fix the blind spots that small lab studies fail to address.
The company has three different studies open for volunteers to join
The smart ring maker is currently offering three initial trials Ring users can join today. The first one focuses on sleep sufficiency, which pairs night rest data with pulse readings. It helps the company figure out how much sleep a specific user really requires every night. The second one is to collect glucose metabolism data by connecting pulse readings with a recent blood test panel.
As for the third study, it estimates cardiovascular fitness by checking pulse signals against workout data to calculate users’ oxygen use. All three studies are optional to join, and users can drop out of them at any time. The Pulsomics program is available for all Ring Air and Ring Pro users aged 18 and above through the companion application.
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