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Garmin acquires analytics company behind its smartwatches’ fitness, health tracking features
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Garmin acquires analytics company behind its smartwatches’ fitness, health tracking features

Firstbeat Analytics provides software that helps monitor stress, sleep, respiration rate and more for Garmin and other consumer smartwatch makers.

Garmin announced today that it has purchased Firstbeat Technologies’ Firstbeat Analytics, its business unit responsible for physiological-measurement algorithms for use with consumer health and wellness devices. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Having utilized Firstbeat’s innovative analytics across our product lines for more than a decade, we are excited to have the Firstbeat Analytics associates join the Garmin team, establishing us at the forefront of physiological analytics,” Cliff Pemble, Garmin president and CEO, said in a statement. “Together with their team of physiologists, scientists and engineers, we look forward to providing Garmin customers with unmatched technology for greater performance, recovery and overall health.”… READ MORE @ Mobi Health News

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