Accurate Heart Rate from a Stylish Ring

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Petteri Lahtela “Accurate Heart Rate from a Stylish Ring”

My name is Petteri Lahtela, and I’m the CEO of a company called ŌURA. I’ve been on my personal journey of finding out the balance between my business life and family life, and also at the same time keeping up with my health and balance. Doing business in about 30 countries and really respecting my family as well.

So I’ve been using different kind of tools for 30 years, starting from the polar heart rate monitors, and then during the recent years of course different kind of apps that are available to understand how the autonomic nervous system is affecting sleep and how sleep is affecting the autonomic nervous system.

So it’s a long way to go to this come to this understanding, and also in the context to understand that I’m not alone with this, but for all of us life is hectic. We are all unique, our lifestyles are unique, our body responses are unique as well.

So sleep and recovery from daily mental and physical load has been a passion for me for a long time now, and also how I can improve my performance and readiness to perform at my best whenever I want.

So this balance between the loads, each one of us we have different loads in our life. I don’t want to talk about stress, but load, so mental or physical load and then we have our own methods to recover from that. And also, we have our own total capacity and current resource level.

So, this all has kind of simplified to me with this kind of cycle. Better sleep, quality, full recovery then I can achieve and improve performance, capacity and readiness, and through that balance my life. And all this has ended to this developing this ring device, and I’m wearing two right now.

So with my wonderful team, having a background in polar, Nokia, and spectra physics and so on, we have combined different functionality's of sleep laboratory level devices to ECG, to eptigraphs and so on.

This is a video, this is showing real-time heart rate and also the acclimation signal, through Bluetooth LE. And the most important thing where we utilize the accuracy of the heart rate reading is detecting sleep stages very accurately. Here you can see a comparison to polytomnography, and one simple parameter telling about our recovery during the night is the resting heart rate.

This shows to different nights after two different days. So all this data that we collect in different ways, different situations, and how our body reacts in different ways we end up with lots of data. And that’s another challenge for us is how we can make this data, how we can simplify it, and how we can make it actionable for people.

And that’s our passion right now to build up this product to watch the situation that we really can give actionable guidance in the main view of the app. It’s really totally personalized, based on the physiology behavior, and also your subjective feedback that you give to the app.

So I hope that our product will help all of you to increase your capacity and to get an understanding how your body reacts in different situations, and how you can help yourself with this.

So my name is Petteri, and we have a booth there, so please come and talk to us to learn more about this.