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parameters such as blood glucose, blood pressure, oxygen levels and heart rate. Some eminent
wrist wearable healthcare monitors included in this category are Blood Pressure Monitors, Blood
Glucose Monitors, Pulse Oximeters and Heart rate Monitors. Following this, are Lifestyle bands
comprising of smart bands or fitness bands commonly employed for tracking routine activities
such as sleep duration and its quality, distance travelled and calories burnt. The succeeding
category includes Infotainment devices consisting of smart watches that are becoming a
significant accessory to smart phones for information and entertainment control. The last segment
denoted as others encompasses all the devices that are new entrants in the market or are in a
nascent phase in the global wrist wearable devices market. This segment contains various devices
including location trackers, wrist chargers, wrist wearable computer and so on.
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WRIST W EARABLE DEVICES-BY APPLICATION S
The next classification of the market is based on the applications for wrist wearable devices. The
applications covered in the report include:
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Healthcare
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Information Control
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Entertainment
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Lifestyle & Wellness
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Sports & Fitness
The Healthcare sector covers the usage of these devices in both remote and clinical healthcare for
monitoring health conditions followed by information control. Information Control deals with the
utilization of wrist wearable devices as information control equipment or remote operation of
device such as smart phones and tablets. The succeeding category is Entertainment, which is
concerned with the use of wrist wearable devices for streaming media content followed by
lifestyle & wellness. It is involves the use of