Summary: At CES 2025, VIV Health introduced the VIV Ring, a smart ring designed for health monitoring and sleep enhancement using generative sleep aid sound technology. The device collects real-time biometric data, including heart rate and oxygen saturation, and uses AI-powered algorithms to generate personalized sleep aid soundscapes based on natural recordings. Scheduled for sale in February 2025, the VIV Ring integrates with Apple Health and will expand with Android compatibility. VIV Health is also conducting clinical trials to advance its technology for medical device certification.
Key Takeaways:
- AI-Driven Sleep Technology: The VIV Ring features generative sleep aid soundscapes created from biometric data and natural sound recordings, aiming to improve sleep quality.
- Real-Time Health Monitoring: The device tracks health metrics such as heart rate, oxygen saturation, and stress levels, offering personalized insights through the VIV App, currently available for iOS.
- Future Expansion Plans: VIV Health plans to begin sales in February 2025 and is working toward developing a medical device version of the VIV Ring, with ongoing regulatory trials for applications like blood pressure and atrial fibrillation detection.
At CES 2025, South Korea-based VIV Health announced the upcoming launch of the VIV Ring, a smart ring equipped with generative sleep aid sound—along with real-time health data collection and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered health predictions.
VIV Ring measures and analyzes biometric signals—including heart rate, oxygen saturation, heart rate variability, and stress levels—to create a personalized health monitoring device integrated with generative sleep aid sound technology for wellness purposes.
The VIV Ring features a VIV App interface that allows users to monitor and measure health metrics. VIV Health focuses on enhancing user experience and simplifying data visualization. The device integrates with Apple Health. The iOS app is now available, and an Android app is scheduled for release in February 2025.
Enhancing Sleep Through Natural Soundscapes
Breaking from the industry norm of synthetic sound creation via digital signal processing, the VIV Ring prioritizes actual natural sounds. It includes recordings of ocean waves, deep-sea acoustics, rainfall in tranquil forests, and birdsong combined with monaural and binaural sounds to enhance sleep quality. VIV Health’s proprietary patents underpin this technology.
The generative sleep aid sound technology analyzes the biometric data, sleep patterns, and sleep cycles collected by the smart ring, constructing AI algorithm-driven personalized sleep audio aimed at improving sleep quality.
The basic version of the generative sleep aid sound has been completed, and a customized version will launch in the first quarter of 2025.
Design, Technology, and Business Expansion
The VIV Ring features a concave center designed to resist scratching, and its diamond-cut chamfered edges aim to provide both aesthetic appeal. VIV Health has achieved the initial mass production milestone for the VIV Ring, completing development in December 2024.
The company will participate in CES 2025 as part of the Seoul Bio Hu’ of the Seoul Metropolitan Government in Korea, an incubator for healthcare technology startups. Since being selected as an incubated company in August, VIV Health has received ongoing marketing and business expansion support.
The VIV Ring is expected to commence sales in February 2025, with current processes in progress for FCC and CE certifications.
Beyond Wellness to Medical Devices
VIV Health is working with Gangnam Severance Hospital, a university hospital in Korea, for clinical trials to secure regulatory approval for its medical device products in 2025.
“We are excited to unveil the wellness smart ring, VIV Ring, at CES 2025 and plan to complete development of the VIV Pro, a medical device smart ring capable of measuring blood pressure and atrial fibrillation by the end of 2025,” says CEO James Shin in a release.
