

ActivHearts™
From Consumer grade to Healthtech/Medtech grade
The wearable and hearable markets have experienced remarkable growth in recent years, driven by increasing consumer demand for fitness tracking, wellness monitoring, and connected healthcare solutions. What began as lifestyle accessories has evolved into a critical technology segment, with devices now supporting everything from daily activity tracking to advanced physiological monitoring and medical-grade applications. As adoption continues to expand across consumer and healthcare markets, wearables and hearables have become a force to be reckoned with in the digital health ecosystem.
ActivHearts™ strength lies in our ability to integrate multiple optical and physiological sensors into extremely compact form factors, particularly in challenging environments such as in-ear earbuds. Our proprietary expertise enables multiple light sources and photodiodes to operate efficiently within a confined space without optical interference between light paths, ensuring highly accurate measurements. This capability is reinforced by our extensive intellectual property portfolio, including some of the earliest and most comprehensive patents covering multi-LED and multi-photodiode architectures. These innovations provide the foundation for reliable sensing performance across a wide range of wearable and hearable applications.
In essence, ActivHearts™ includes bio-signals such as resting HR, respiratory rate, SpO2, core body temperature, exercise HR, RR-interval/HRV, HRV (anxiety/fatigue/mood), post-exercise HRR, VO2max, sleep stages, and more.
Building on these core strengths, ActivHearts™ has successfully miniaturized advanced sensing technologies for deployment in some of the smallest and most challenging body locations. Our solutions are designed for areas behind the ear, on the bridge of the nose for AI glasses, and within smartwatches and screenless wristbands. Through careful optical design and system integration, we minimize light leakage and maximize signal quality, enabling accurate measurements from even the most compact wearable devices.
Today, ActivHearts™ technology powers a broad portfolio of wearable and hearable products across the industry. Our sensing solutions have been adopted by leading brands and incorporated into a wide range of device models, reflecting the trust that manufacturers place in our expertise, innovation, and proven performance. By enabling accurate health and wellness monitoring across diverse form factors, ActivHearts™ continues to play a key role in shaping the future of wearable and hearable technology.
These different applications are the reasons that Well Being Digital (WBD101) focuses on sensing technology. We collaborate internationally with a range of universities, hospitals and research centres to carry out different clinical trials, so as to get high accuracy for our technology and be able to provide clinical trial data for customers applying for regulatory approvals such as FDA, NMPA, CE-MDR and HSA.
(Updated Aug 3rd, 2026)

benefits of using infra red
Access to Accurate Bio-signals for All
Our technology has accumulated over 1000 miles worth of purely accuracy testing, comprising of data from different ear shapes, gender and skin colours. This aggregate data can improve consumers’ physical well-being through a wide range of aeriobic exercises.


Photoplethysmography (PPG)
measuring heart rate (change in blood volume of heart) via light transmission or reflection
how does
activhearts™
work?
ActivHearts™ - Probably the World’s Smallest Heart Rate Sensing Tech for Smart Hearables/Wearables
One of the challenges of PPG technology is that the PPG sensors pick up a lot of noise when the user is exercising, as it is very sensitive to motion. WBD101 technology uses customized Optical Designs (OpticalFusion™) and advance AI digital signal processing (ActivHearts™) to remove these motion noise and cadence lock.
what can you deduce from heart rate?
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Dynamic Heart Rate (even during running)
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Calories and energy expenditure
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Maximum Oxygen Uptake (VO2max) and Saturated Blood Oxygen (SpO2)
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Core Body Temperature (with additional sensors)
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Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Heart Rate Recovery (HRR)
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Fatigue / Stress / Emotion
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Respiratory Rate
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Assessment protocols
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Training zones for Fat Burn, Muscle Build and to avoid over-exertion of the heart
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R-R Interval (RRI)