ZENTA wrist-wearable to track both mental and physical well being

Technology has been evolving ways to approach physical well-being through wearables like apple watch, Microsoft band which tracks our heartbeat and movement. However, now a London-based start-up has decided to take the mental well-being in hands, we mean, in our smartphones.

Created by VINAYA, ZENTA wrist-wearable not only monitors your physical well-being but also incorporates the added element of mental well-being.

Zenta monitors physical health, such as user’s heart rate, and also perspiration, respiration and temperature levels. The app then cross-references this data against other data from user’s Smartphone in order to understand cause and effect. Using all this data it finally creates a pattern about indicators for mental health such as stress levels.

“The complexities of human emotions have been explored by technologists for decades. The concept of using technology to monitor things like stress and happiness isn’t new, however, it’s only very recently become feasible in an ‘out-of-Lab’, real life capacity. We now have the sensor technology and the power capabilities required to actually begin to track this stuff day-to-day, using a device that’s actually wearable,” said Kate Unsworth, Founder, and CEO of Vinaya.

Vinaya, which uses machine learning algorithms to build up personalized profiles of their users over time as a result of their behavioural patterns, aims to understand how every single human emotion can be plotted in 3-dimensional space, where the coordinates are collected passively from the user’s biometrics or Smartphone data.

The Vinaya Platform has a lab consisting of neuroscientists, psychologists, and digital anthropologists and they are in the process of building an Artificial Intelligence layer on top of the wearables. The new feature could do things like scheduling a break in between meetings, which will help the user’s biometrics and indicate the lack of productivity as a result of stress.