Huawei has partnered with Chinese smart wearable company Oviphone on what the duet declares is “the world’s first NB-IoT watch.” NB-IoT is the cellular industry’s approach to influencing supposed Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technology. Though only consistent in June, and trail after rival proprietary LPWA technology such as Sigfox and LoRa, marketable operations are predictable by early 2017 and will hold up IoT application with low bandwidth supplies, such as elegant parking, stylish metering or smart waste management.
Oviphone CEO Jack Yu states it is also an appropriate expertise to control wearables. Yu said the moderately low take-up of smart watches so far is since they are inopportune; they consume high power and dependence on being connected to a smartphone. Yu also said there’s no forceful ground to acquire a smartwatch, “a smartphone has nearly all of the purpose of a wristwatch and dimension correctness of a smartwatch is too low.”
CEO of Oviphone pointed to lessons learnt from its previous smartwatch launches. Yu stated, in the past few years its watch was sold very well in China, the watch was based on GSM/GPRS technology. However, the watch is quite large so its power consumption is very high. The same problem was recognized for its watch targeting the older generation which was also based on GSM/GPRS. The health measurement in the watch wasn’t good enough.
The company also crafted a sport band and watch which is based on Bluetooth, but an issue was users couldn’t recover immediate notifications without a smartphone. Oviphone vendor is working with Chinese smartphone maker Huawei on an NB-IoT band for the old age group and it is also designing a new version of its existing GSM tracker for pets, bags and suitcases.