Fall detection on Google Pixel watch is one attractive feature of the smartwatch and it was rolled out to the wearable(by Google) on Tuesday. This article will be showing you how to activate Fall detection on Google Pixel Watch, that’s after we might have revealed how it works.
To identify “hard falls,” the Pixel Watch employs motion sensors and on-device machine learning. It will “watch for a sudden impact and your body’s reflexes and instinctual reactions to falling” if activated.
When a fall is detected, the Pixel Watch will vibrate, sound an alarm, and display a full-screen alert asking whether you wish to call for help. If you do not press “I’m OK” within 60 seconds (with the alert increasing in volume), your Pixel Watch will automatically contact emergency services. “I fell and need help” will start the procedure right away. The following will be heard by the operator, and you will have the option to speak with them:
“You are being contacted by an automated emergency voice service on behalf of a caller. The caller’s watch detected a possible fall, and they were unresponsive. Please send help. Their location is 12.039578 degrees latitude, -121.947872 degrees longitude.”
Steps to Set up Fall detection on Google Pixel Watch
After the update is applied to your device, you’ll get a notice in the Updates page to “Set up Fall detection.” “Learn more” directs you to the settings page, which is also accessible under Watch preferences > Safety & Emergency.
The Fall detection page presents you with two toggles:
- Use fall detection: Your Pixel Watch can detect when you’ve had a hard fall and call the emergency services
- Help improve fall detection: Help improve Google products by automatically sending usage info and fall detection reports to Google
The second option, which is disabled by default, operates by “sharing motion sensor data with Google.” The data is not linked to your Google Account or personally identifiable information, and it is only used to “better future Fall detection for everyone and will not be used for any other reason.”
To get the maximum functionality of Fall detection on Google Pixel Watch,
- Google Pixel Watch WI-FI needs to be in the range of your phone and connected with Bluetooth for your phone to call emergency services. You will not be able to talk to emergency services from your watch if your watch is not connected to a phone through Bluetooth.
- Google Pixel Watch LTE needs an active LTE connection on your watch to call emergency services without your phone nearby.
Meanwhile, one beauty of the Fall detection on Google Pixel watch is the ability of the smartwatch to differentiate between a hard fall and exercise. “We trained this process using a broad variety of human and simulated fall data and other motion patterns to accurately detect real falls and minimize potential false alarms.”
