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September 4, 2020 By GOQii Leave a Comment

There’s A Reason Why Akshay Kumar Has Been Using This Smart Watch

As we’re slowly unlocking, there is still that sense of panic and dread. COVID-19 might be far from over but should that stop you from being active? Should it get in the way of your business? At times like these, it is important to be cautious and even more important to be smart about it. The best part is that now, you can do both with the GOQii Smart Vital – the latest offering by the Smart-Tech Preventive Healthcare Platform, GOQii.

What Is The GOQii Smart Vital?

The GOQii Smart Vital is a smartwatch designed to measure your vitals. It has an integrated pulse oximeter which helps you monitor your blood oxygen and provide real time updates of variation in blood oxygen levels. Apart from monitoring your blood oxygen levels, the other features of the device include:

Sensors to detect Body temperature
Track heart rate in real-time
Check blood pressure
18 Exercise modes with real-time data display
Counts steps, calories, sleep, alarm and inactivity alerts, etc.
Personalized watch faces
Music and phone finder to go truly hands-free
Smart notifications for messages, calls, WhatsApp and other apps on your phone
Water Resistance
3” full screen touch display
External Charger with up to 7 days battery life

How Does The GOQii Smart Vital Help During A Pandemic?

According to medical experts, COVID-19 patients are found to have low oxygen levels. Apart from this, high body temperature is also a symptom. Hence, such a device is crucial in diagnosing and monitoring the symptoms of COVID-19. It helps in tracking potential crisis. With the device, an individual can immediately track changes in their vitals and take necessary precautions. More so, the unique features of detecting sleep, calories, heart rate and blood pressure can also indicate the potential of other health risks.

The GOQii Smart Vital can be connected to a centralized dashboard that enables remote monitoring of a large user base. This monitoring is continuous and would require minimal user intervention. This can enable companies to track the health of their employees and mitigate any health risks or limit the infection from spreading further.

Vishal Gondal, the Founder and CEO of GOQii says, “We are on the path of innovation with GOQii Smart Vital that will help in detection, isolation and monitoring of coronavirus cases. The key is to understand your symptoms and correlate them to changes in body vitals. The smart watch will provide a reference to understand your health and fitness that is crucial while we battle the pandemic. The moment you detect temperature changes coupled with low oxygen blood levels, you know you have to contact your healthcare provider and get tested.”

Vouched For & Tested By The Best!

At the launch of the smart watch, GOQii’s brand ambassador Akshay Kumar said, “The GOQii Vital 3.0 was handed over to Mumbai, Jalandhar and Nashik police, and we have seen the impact it has had on our police force. It helped them in quick detection and isolation thus ensuring that the virus does not spread. The new smart watch with added advantage will also help in reducing burden on testing as people with normal fever need not rush to hospital unless other vitals are unstable. Using such devices will eventually become a necessity as we are slowly gearing to resume normal life”.

About 150 cast and crew members of the movie “Bell Bottom” have become the first group in the world who are going to use the GOQii Smart Vital during the entire shoot of the film in UK & India.

Where Can You Buy It?

The device is currently available on GOQii’s website – store.goqii.com/smartvital. You can also get it from the GOQii Health Store by downloading the app – www.goqii.com/app

The device is also available on Amazon India.

The device comes with a 1 year warranty and a 3 month Personal Care Plan Subscription in which you get a personal coach and an expert, who can enable you to meet your health goals, as well as access to various other features within the app.

#BeTheForce

August 14, 2020 By GOQii Leave a Comment

Keep A Watch On Your Health With The GOQii Smart Vital!

The COVID-19 pandemic put a lockdown on our lifestyle, the way we function daily and many aspects of our physical, mental and emotional health – and it is far from over. While the panic still continues, it becomes important to measure your vitals like blood oxygen and body temperature as these two are known indicators of COVID-19. Imagine having a device that could help you track these. Well, you don’t need to imagine any more because this device exists and it’s called the GOQii Smart Vital!

What Is The GOQii Smart Vital?

The GOQii Smart Vital is a smart watch designed to measure your vitals. It has an Integrated Pulse Oximeter which helps you monitor your blood oxygen and give you real-time updates of variation in blood oxygen levels. According to medical experts, COVID-19 patients are found to have lower oxygen rate, hence the device is crucial in diagnosing and monitoring COVID-19 symptoms. The perfect combination of tracking body temperature and blood oxygen will help in immediate tracking of potential cases.

Apart from monitoring your SpO2, it can also:

Measure body temperature
Track heart rate in real-time
Check blood pressure
18 Exercise modes with real-time data display
Counts steps, calories, sleep, etc.
Personalized watch faces
Music and phone finder to go truly hands-free
Smart notifications for messages, calls, WhatsApp and other apps on your phone
Water Resistant

Our Founder and CEO Vishal Gondal says, “We are on the path of innovation with the GOQii Smart Vital that will help in detection, isolation and monitoring of coronavirus cases. The key is to understand your symptoms and correlate them to changes in body vitals. As we battle the pandemic, this smart device will enable you to understand your health better while you Keep A Watch on crucial parameters such as blood oxygen levels, body temperature, heart rate & blood pressure. The moment you detect temperature changes coupled with low blood oxygen levels, you know you have to contact your healthcare provider and get tested”.

“The GOQii Vital 3.0 was handed over to Mumbai, Jalandhar and Nashik police, and we have seen the impact it has had on our police force. It helped them in quick detection and isolation thus ensuring that the virus does not spread. Using such devices will eventually become a necessity as we are slowly gearing to resume normal life”, said Akshay Kumar at the launch of GOQii Smart Vital.

So what are you waiting for? Go on and get your own GOQii Smart Vital to drive away all the panic, get informed and active! You also receive a 3 months coaching subscription with the device which you can link to the GOQii app for added benefits. You can buy the device from the GOQii Store or Amazon.

Please note: this is only a screening device and not a medical device. It is recommended that it be used for screening purposes only. All data collected by GOQii is subjected to HIPAA, GDPR and relevant data privacy guidelines.

Stay home, stay safe, keep a watch on your vitals and #BeTheForce!

July 30, 2020 By GOQii 1 Comment

Get Ready For The New Normal With the GOQii Vital 3.0

When 2020 began, we all imagined new beginnings, new resolutions, made a list of places to travel to, thought of picking up new hobbies and probably exploring new ventures. All those glorious plans came to a standstill when the COVID-19 pandemic came to our doorstep. With almost half a year in lockdown, all our plans had to be flushed in what we would like to call writhing anguish. But amidst all the chaos and fear, we did not stop innovating, rebuilding and taking caution. This led to the creation of something unique which proved useful during the crisis – the GOQii Vital 3.0.

What is the GOQii Vital 3.0?

In May 2020, we announced the launch of a major breakthrough in early COVID-19 detection tracing through our new device, the GOQii Vital 3.0 which is one of the world’s first major disruptions in COVID-19 prevention. The wristband comes with sensors to detect body temperature which is an early symptom of COVID-19. Apart from tracking body temperature, the device also measures your blood pressure, heart rate and sleep while keeping a check on your step count and calories.

The GOQii Vital 3.0 has an inbuilt temperature display and thermal sensor that has two ways of temperature monitoring – the continuous monitoring feature and the on-demand feature for users who would like to check at their convenience. The temperature range is 77°F to 113 °F with an accuracy of +/- 0.3 °F.

Other Features

Apart from detecting body temperature, the GOQii Vital 3.0 also has some other exciting features:

Tracking steps, distance, calories burned and active time
24×7 heart rate monitoring
Blood pressure monitoring
Exercise mode
Auto sleep tracking
Connect with phone for notifications

Partnerships and Study

Given the advanced preventive health capabilities of the platform, GOQii’s Brand Ambassador Akshay Kumar has donated 1,000 GOQii Vital 3.0 bands to Mumbai and Nashik Police who are at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19. The Mumbai Police department was the first organisation in the world enabled to remotely track and manage the health of its Personnel via the GOQii Preventive Health Platform.

GOQii has partnered with Thryve, a German healthtech company focusing on aggregation and analysis of health data generated by wearables, medical devices and other health data sources. Thryve’s machine learning-based algorithms provide actionable insights on infectious diseases like COVID-19, depression and other medical conditions. They help health services to uncover the underlying patterns, detect people’s health progress trajectory and lead health-care with proactive insight provisioning. Through this partnership, GOQii will conduct a clinical study in India to check the accuracy of early detection of COVID-19. Detection of characteristic changes in body temperature and other vital data enable early detection of COVID-19 symptoms. The combination of Thryve’s unique machine learning-based algorithms and GOQii’s Vital 3.0 Smart band will usher a breakthrough in technology advancement to address the current crisis in timely detection of COVID -19 that has engulfed the globe.

So what are you waiting for? Get ready for the new normal! Go pick your own GOQii Vital 3.0 now and say hello to good health and great healthcare!

You can get it here: https://bit.ly/3ij2nez

Or simply download the GOQii App and head over the GOQii Health Store!

Please note: this is only a screening device and not a medical device. It is recommended that it be used for screening purposes only. All data collected by GOQii is subjected to HIPAA, GDPR and relevant data privacy guidelines.

#BeTheForce

February 7, 2019 By GOQii Leave a Comment

Head in the Right Direction with GOQii RunGPS!

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a device that tracked your route during your daily run and provided comprehensive data that could be analyzed to help you bring out the best from each session? Now, you have the most affordable way to do just that with the all new GOQii RunGPS!

On 20th January, GOQii launched its first in line smart wearable for 2019, the GOQii RunGPS which comes with an integrated GPS tracker that tracks your walking, running, cycling and other activities. It also comes integrated with Marathon Coaching delivered by GOQii Play – an interactive video platform. RunGPS has the best in class features that no other competitor offers with the lowest price point in the market today that is INR 4,999 along with 3 months of coaching.

Targeted at the running community that trains and coaches for marathons, treks and other running heavy sports, GOQii RunGPS provides guidance with the best in the business. GOQii has signed ace runners and doctors as consultants that offer their expertise to the users. Apart from professional trainers and doctors, GOQii has on board ‘Ranveer Allahbadia, Jeet Salal, Gaurav Taneja, and Abhinav Mahajan” who are India’s biggest fitness stars on social media platforms like Youtube, Instagram & Facebook. Sardara Singh, former Captain of the Indian Hockey Team, is also on the GOQii Platform training and guiding users towards a healthier lifestyle.

GOQii RunGPS tracker has six screens that track steps, distance, pace, calories burnt, heart rate and duration. The device also tracks activities and sleep, comes with an integrated USB charger that can easily be connected to any power bank, adapter or laptop. The device can be connected wirelessly via Bluetooth to the GOQii iOS and Android app. You can also get details about your activity, be it running, cycling or a workout, once you sync your device with the app. The app will then provide you with all the necessary data you need to take your sessions to the next level. The device also comes with a GOQii family care plan that offers a personal coach and personalised doctor consultation for the subscription period of 3 months for one selected member. The purchase of the band also has tax benefits under section 80D. The subscription also offers access to GOQii Play, which is the premium video content service by GOQii that has videos across topics viz Exercise, Yoga, Nutrition, Mental & Emotional Wellbeing.

Launching the product, Mr. Vishal Gondal, our Founder and CEO says that GOQii has always aimed at looking at simple, affordable and adaptable options for preventive healthcare. According to our recent fifth edition of India Fit Report, running has increased from 22% in 2017 to 33% in 2018 among Indians, which is a gradual progression from walking. Therefore, launching the first-in-class wearable device for running was the next best step. GOQii RunGPS will greatly aid our players (users) to run better towards a healthier lifestyle. Running has been known to improve mental and health functions, lowering depression levels, increase stamina, boost immunity and maintain a healthy BMI. Our RunGPS will surely benefit all health enthusiasts.

GOQii RunGPS is available on the GOQii Store and on Amazon.in. Other services that GOQii RunGPS provides access to are: GOQii Play – a premium video channel for all health and fitness related content, GOQii Health Store – a curated market place to provide healthy, organic products that include food items, supplements, neutraceuticals, sportswear and exercise equipment and GOQii Arena – a platform that helps connect like-minded individuals focused on health and fitness.