Chinese tech powerhouse Huawei, in its growing support for the development of smart health and fitness wearable devices, has opened its largest health lab yet. The Huawei Health Lab facility is located in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, China is the culmination of investment to the tune of 200 million yuan ($) by Huawei in support of research and development of smart wearables.

The latest Huawei Health Lab facility is the company’s largest of such labs and will support up to 80 simulation tests covering the entire gamut of the development of smart wearables. The facility will house Huawei’s important R&D teams carrying out cutting-edge research into human health and fitness in tandem with the development of Huawei’s smart wearable products. The new lab adds much-needed capacity and potential to Huawei’s existing lab in Xi’an, China which focuses on innovative applications for health and fitness.

In a statement released by Huawei, it says the new Huawei Health Lab aims to become a world-class health and fitness technology institute dedicated to products, standards, certifications, and industry incubation activities. The state-of-the-art Huawei Health Lab facility will support the research and development of new wearable technologies for expanded and robust health monitoring. The plateau blood oxygen simulation laboratory inside the new facility is capable of replicating high-altitude environments to provide groundbreaking tests on oxygen levels saturation and its impact on body functions.

The Huawei Health Lab has all the facilities needed to observe and measure body changes at different altitudes under different climatic conditions. The quantum of data generated from the laboratory is bound to drive cutting-edge research and development of wearable products that Huawei says are critical for health and fitness monitoring. In addition, the health and fitness incubation area of the facility allows for all-scenario simulation of health experiences and services, including micro-physical examination, digital sports, and home fitness, according to the company.

Huawei hopes its massive investment in the Health Lab will drive its development of innovative wearables which are increasingly becoming a critical health gadget for all segments of the population. The company also provided a video tour and images of the magnificent 4,680 square meters Health Lab in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, China.

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Chinese tech powerhouse, Huawei today announced the implementation of its brand-new Health Lab in the Chinese city of Xi’an. In a press release, the company disclosed that the Health Lab is an innovative facility that provides an avenue for researchers from Huawei, as well as engineers, and developers to cross-fertilize ideas and concepts and jointly explore the innovation and application of emerging technologies in sports and health, bringing a scientific and conducive experience through their smart wearables, which are tiny gadgets that provide consumers with a more comprehensive and scientific exercise experience and healthier living.

Today, Huawei’s smart wearables, as with many other branded products, are very popular and as a response to consumers’ trust and loyalty, Huawei has shown commitment to innovate and enhance its research and development capabilities so as to get a foothold into the budding health technology market.

Huawei launched seven smart wearables this year. These include smartwatches such as  Watch GT 2, Watch GT 2 Pro, and Watch FIT, which won accolades from the industry for their extensive professional fitness and health tracking functions. Indeed, a market research report by IDC, showed that Huawei’s wrist wearables ranked No. 1 in Q2, 2020.

In line with the ideals of the company to maintain its excellent momentum, its R&D staff spent nine months integrating existing R&D resources and introducing new professional sports and health research devices to consumers. The Huawei Health Lab was conceptualized and built to further enhance the research capabilities of its smartwatches and other wearables. Dozens of researchers, developers, and testers will work together closely in the Huawei Health Lab to achieve the goal of an active and healthy lifestyle from a wide range of specialized equipment and innovative research methods.

The smart wearables are borne out of rigorous research and testing to provide an excellent user experience. There are complex R&D processes developed from within the Huawei Health Lab aimed at improving health and fitness tracking. According to the Press Release, Huawei says that their devices are a culmination of a comprehensive testing and simulation regimen to provide consumers with the best possible experience while using any of Huawei’s smart wearables.

The Huawei Health Lab, therefore, provides the perfect setting for accurately capturing health data and simulating all possible consumer experience to provide devices that give great value for money spent, as a health and fitness device.

With an array of state-of-the-art research equipment on sports and health, coupled with the creativity and resourcefulness of the researchers and developers from various professional backgrounds, the Health Lab is a breeding ground for more innovative smart wearables from the stables of Huawei. This much was stated by Rico Zhang, President of Smart Wearable and Health Product Line in Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG). The experts working in the Lab span many areas across the spectrum of sports and human health sciences and they are creating new research directions and methodologies in sports fitness and wellbeing.

The Health Lab has an experimental smart wearable product testing area and a sports health innovation area, where extensive and rigorous tests are conducted for extended periods on wearable devices before being released to the market. Using more than 20 professional research devices, the product testing engineers rely on national and international standards of product hardware and software to simulate extreme conditions for these devices as a means of establishing their durability under extreme scenarios.

Huawei says it will continue to scale up investment in sports and health and plans to build another sports health lab in Songshan Lake, Dongguan to interface with Huawei’s science institutes to build an innovative health ecosystem and also provide its teeming consumers with cutting-edge health and fitness products that are easy to use.

With the rapid expansion of Huawei’s sports R&D facilities matching the brand’s growing repertoire of wearable devices to suit different consumer needs, the future certainly looks bright for Huawei’s smart wearable and health product line.

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