Sina Science and Technology News Beijing time on October 13 evening news, it is reported that after more than 7 years of effortsAppleThe company has begun to extend some of the health monitoring features of Apple Watch smartwatches to AirPods wireless headset products.

For many years,AppleAmbitions in AirPods and in-ear sensors are obvious, with a large number of patents for headphones as health monitors that date back seven years. Apple Inc executives also said that this function will be applied to devices other than Apple Watch. At the same time, there have been rumors in the market that AirPods will soon have sensors and other health monitors.

Now, these are finally coming true. According to some newly released documents and sources familiar with the matter, AirPods may support temperature monitoring in the future, and there is already a "prototype product". AirPods can also be used as a hearing aid to help people with hearing loss.

In addition, the future AirPods will also have built-in motion sensors to monitor the user's posture. If the user is found slouching in a chair and other similar behavior, the headset will sound an alarm.

AirPods launched in September 2016 and barely accepted online orders until the end of the year. However, as early as 2014, Apple Inc applied for three patents related to biometric sensor headphones.

According to the 2014 patent, a health monitoring system is installed in a set of headphones or earplugs in or near the ear, and embedded activity sensors can obtain data such as temperature, sweat and heart rate.

There have been rumors for a long time that AirPods will integrate health functions. As early as 2018, Guo Mingyi, a well-known Apple Inc analyst, said that AirPods can be integrated with Apple Watch and other devices to achieve better health management.

In addition, Apple Inc has submitted a number of patent applications involving the introduction of health features on a pair of AirPods. These include sensors that track heart rate, exercise or other health indicators.

Earlier this year, Kevin Lynch (Kevin Lynch), vice president of Apple Inc, talked about integrating AirPods into health and the concept of "sensor fusion." Lynch hinted that Apple Inc might include other types of device sensors in his Health ecosystem, including those in AirPods.

Currently, Apple Inc Health system has been using "sensor fusion" to extract useful data from different devices, including iPhone or Apple Watch.