As the CES gets into full flow in Vegas this week, Citizen has debuted its newest version of the CZ Smart.
The revolutionary wearable provides a built-in self-care advisor through the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application which has been developed using research pioneered by NASA’s Ames Research Center and AI built through CITIZEN partnerships using the environment and tools within IBM Watson Studio on IBM Cloud.
The CZ Smart YouQ software helps the wearer understand and anticipate patterns of fatigue and alertness and offers customized insights and personalized strategies to build better habits to maximize a wearer’s daily potential.
Citizen says the CZ Smart watches combine watch design, purposeful function, and innovative technology in a game-changing wearable device.
The CZ Smart YouQ application provides insights that help make the wearer smarter about their own wellness, syncs with their daily life, and provides real-time biofeedback.
Using neural networks developed within the IBM Watson Studio workspace, CZ Smart YouQ can learn and understand the wearer’s preferred timing of sleep and wake within seven to ten days by processing their sleep data and Alert Scores and deepens that understanding over time.
Alert Scores are generated when a wearer takes a custom-designed Alert Monitor test, a consumer-facing iteration of NASA’s Psychomotor Vigilance Task Test (PVT+), originally developed to determine the mental acuity of astronauts.
The CZ Smart YouQ Alert Monitor was designed based on NASA’s PVT+ test and utilizing research from leading science and academic experts at NASA’s Ames Research Center Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory.
The Alert Monitor tests are brief, gamified, and can be taken daily to measure the wearer’s alertness.
Through personal data points captured with the watch, including Alert Scores, chronotype, sleep patterns, activity, and heartrate monitoring, CZ Smart YouQ quantitatively analyzes and learns about the wearer’s unique characterization, rhythms, and habits to enhance personalization.
By utilizing a dynamic recognition model to match wearers to their chronotype, the CZ Smart YouQ application recommends highly personalized Power Fixes, suggested actions to help the wearer mitigate the effects of fatigue, improve alertness, and promote the building of better habits, readying the wearer to meet whatever the day may bring.
Commenting on the launch, Jeffrey Cohen, Citizen’s President in America, said: “The latest CZ Smart watch is a game-changing product that brings CITIZEN’s legacy of watchmaking together with best-in-class research and technology of NASA and IBM, directly to wearers’ wrists.
“Coupled with the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application, this smartwatch is a revolution in wearable wellness.”
The latest generation of CZ Smart watches with the proprietary CZ Smart YouQ application will be available in the U.S. at www.citizenwatch.com starting in March 2023.