Smart wearable devices are a very broad market, with everything from high-end to low-end, from smart watches worth a few thousand dollars, to sports bracelets worth a few hundred dollars, to children's watches, with a wide range of brands and types.
If Sanqing chooses to make its own products, it will have to start from scratch and compete with these well-known brands to seize the market. This is undoubtedly a hellish difficulty.
But if you only focus on selling ECG monitor modules, there will be no competitors.
All manufacturers will become customers, and all smart wearable devices on the market will be equipped with this module, which will become a standard part just like the camera lens of a mobile phone.
In this way, the entire market can be monopolized, and the pattern will be opened up instantly.
Next, Weikang registered a patent for the portable monitoring module and applied for it both internationally and domestically.
Later, an electronic products and medical device division was established and began to recruit employees.
Generally speaking, the communications industry has advanced solution providers that provide a package of services, from design to testing to production, all of which can be outsourced.
As long as the customer pays, the supplier can make any kind of mobile phone and accessories, and then deliver the finished goods to them.
Wei Kang thought about it and felt that the design aspect still had to be in his own hands. As for subsequent production, it would not be too late to find an OEM.
The design drawings are already available. Let’s make the hardware of the module first, and then make the simplest product, such as a sports bracelet.
Finally, the supporting software is flashed on the model machine and the whole machine is tested to obtain real and effective data.
At this point, with hardware and data, you can talk to mobile phone manufacturers about cooperation.
At the beginning, the components of the monitoring module needed to be customized by the factory, and the price was very high.
Fortunately, the good luck bracelets are all made of standard parts. You only need to install some core components and have the most basic functions. It doesn't cost much to make some samples.
The highlight is still in-depth customization with mobile phone manufacturers, but this mainly depends on the manufacturer's own R&D strength.
Only when the manufacturer is strong can the cooperation and debugging between the two parties proceed smoothly.
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Half a month later, new employees arrived one after another, mostly hardware engineers.
Since the equipment division only has one project for the time being, there are not many people there, and only about ten people have been recruited.
Sanqing Group is currently very well-known, and its remuneration is known to be good. Most of the people it recruits are filled with applicants, and it is filled up very quickly.
The new employees are placed in the annex building where the Longtu branch is located, just above the programmers.
They are responsible for the hardware, the programmers are responsible for the software, and both parties work together to complete the project.
In addition to the hardware of the monitoring module, Longtu will also launch different versions according to different devices and install them on smart watches and other devices.
The bracelet version app will build a mathematical model based on the collected health monitoring information, use AI diagnostic technology to classify it one by one, and make some basic judgments.
Lu Tingfeng, the head of the business unit, is a senior project manager who is over forty and is in the golden period of his career.
He has been working in the medical device industry for many years and has rich experience. He knows that Wei Kang attaches great importance to this project. In order to perform well in front of the boss, he started the 996 mode as soon as he joined the company and worked enthusiastically, forgetting to eat and sleep.
At 12 o'clock every night, Wei Kang would receive a large daily work report from him in his mailbox on time.
This enthusiasm for work has also infected the new employees in the business department. Everyone works overtime and doesn't get off work until midnight every day.
Fortunately, they all live in the dormitory at the headquarters. They can lie on the bed and fall asleep within a few minutes of leaving the office.
Lu Tingfeng lives in the executive villa area at the foot of the mountain, which is a little further away. He has to take a sightseeing bus home every day.
There are actually not many people living in the executive villa area of Sanqing headquarters.
Because many high-level officials buy houses in school districts and live in urban areas or other places for their families.
Lu Tingfeng learned that he could live here on the day he reported. He was immediately elated and immediately moved in with his wife and children.
After settling in, he couldn't suppress his excitement every day and would always post a message on WeChat Moments in the morning.
"Good morning, work hard and strive every day!"
Then I attached a picture of the beautiful scenery of the villa, which immediately attracted a lot of likes.
"This treatment is so enviable!"
"The villa at the foot of the mountain, executive benefits, and the Sanqing treatment are truly well-deserved."
"Look at the company's dormitory, and then look at this villa. The company is really incomparable."
After dinner, he would take a look at the number of likes, then put away his phone with satisfaction, walk into the luxuriously decorated study, and start working.
Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, and if they are given enough treatment, they have to work hard.
Lu Tingfeng, who came from a domestic equipment company, deeply understands this truth.
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Early in the morning, Lu Tingfeng had breakfast in the cafeteria and walked into the office in high spirits.
I found a paper box on the table. I opened it and found that the sample of the bracelet had been delivered.
This sports bracelet is the most common style on the market. It is waist-shaped and looks younger.
The only difference is that there is an extra silver electrode on the wrist, which can collect pulse change signals more sensitively.
There are several colors, including red, orange, yellow, green, and purple, which look pretty and colorful.
"Not bad! There's nothing wrong with the appearance. The workmanship of this foundry is pretty good."
Lu Tingfeng nodded, quite satisfied.
He turned it on and checked, Bluetooth, GPS positioning, pedometer, sleep analysis, blood oxygen analysis, pulse monitoring, etc. There were no problems with the common functions and it ran very fast.
As a model machine, it is mainly used for testing. The appearance is not important. The workmanship is good, which is already a surprise.
This was the first batch of samples. There were about fifty in a box. He took them out and gave one to each of the engineers.
"The first batch of samples has arrived. Each of you will try it on one, and then the rest will do software and hardware testing."
"Remember, in addition to charging, you have to wear it 24 hours a day and record electrocardiogram data. These data are very important for modeling."
The employees gathered around, picked up the bracelets, put them on their hands, and admired them.
"It looks pretty good. I'm going to test it right now."
"I'll give a few to the software team and ask them to flash the latest version of the software."
"The real thing is quite beautiful. I originally thought the bracelet was not as good-looking as the watch, but now it seems it's actually pretty good."
Everyone started talking about it and soon started testing.
Lu Tingfeng was no exception and picked up a red bracelet and put it on his wrist, intending to record his physical parameters and check his health status.
When people reach middle age, their health is not as good as before, and various problems arise one after another, and he is no exception.
In the past two years, after working for a long time, I always feel extra tired. Sometimes I feel tight in the chest and heart after staying up late.
However, it was never serious. As long as he had a good rest the next day, these feelings would disappear soon, so he never took it seriously and thought it was normal.
There was a coolness coming from the electrode pads, and I felt a little comfortable, and I quickly got used to it.
After connecting to the mobile phone, all recorded data will be stored on the Longtu app, transferred to the mobile phone for analysis, and a report will be generated for viewing.
The chip performance of the bracelet is average and cannot provide enough computing power, but when the mobile phone is involved, the chip performance is sufficient.
After wearing the bracelet, it needs to be monitored for at least one minute to get a set of reliable data. In theory, at least three sets of data are needed to reach a mathematical confidence interval of 95.
Normally, this is enough to judge.
Of course, if there is nothing wrong with ordinary people, their heart rate will always be in a normal range.
The bracelet will monitor heart rate conditions 24 hours a day, and any changes that occur will be faithfully recorded.
If you participate in sports or other situations and your heart rate reaches the limit, after the bracelet monitors it, it will alarm in time.
Not only will the bracelet flash and vibrate, but the phone will also issue a warning.
If it continues to be in extreme conditions and other dangerous conditions are detected, the mobile phone will sound a harsh alarm and dial the emergency contact number.
After Lu Tingfeng put on the bracelet, he began to devote himself to his busy work and completely forgot about the existence of the bracelet on his wrist.
In the afternoon, a prompt popped up on the computer, and it turned out that it was time for the meeting.
This was a work report to Mr. Wei. He didn't dare to delay, so he got up and ran away.
As soon as I left the room, I suddenly remembered something, so I turned back, picked up a bracelet, and stuffed it into my pocket.
When the sample arrived, I had to give it to the boss to try it out.
Lu Tingfeng thought happily and walked out the door with his head held high.
As soon as he reached the door, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He couldn't help but cover his shoulder and screamed.
