OAXIS HB1001SA-GG04 Star 21 fitness band color Green

OAXIS Star.21 fitness band

The story of the project

In today's hectic urban lifestyle, many of us find it difficult to maintain a healthy lifestyle while juggling what life throws at us. In this age of multitasking and instant gratification, there are constant distractions, disruptions, temptations that throw us off our fitness plans.

The promise of activity trackers to improve our fitness has not yielded significant results. Most fitness trackers on the market record daily activities and provide statistical data to the users; most apps employ leaderboards letting users compete against each other. Wearable fitness trackers are failing to gain traction with users. As soon as the novelty wears off and progress becomes stagnant, users do not continue to wear the fitness trackers.

Star.21 Fitness Band

Star.21 is a Fitness Tracker that helps you kickstart your healthy lifestyle and cultivate long lasting healthy habits through a unique gaming experience. Based on the 21 days habit formations concept, completing a guided list of milestones, we are able to turn tasks into habits that will become second nature.

Star.21 Concept

Star.21 is designed to deliver a positive impact to users, by helping them cultivate fitness habits that are long lasting. Based on the "21-Day Habit Formation" concept, the Lifebalanz App attempts to guide users through the first 21 days with progressive milestones. By achieving these milestones, healthy habits are hardwired into the user's behavior. The human brain is capable of rewiring itself in 21 days to establish new neural pathways through repetitive actions, hence long lasting habits can be formed.

Giving Users the Psychological Edge

Star.21 helps you cultivate habits through achieving consistent daily goals, by achieving daily goals forms a strong habit that is difficult to break.

Other fitness bands motivates you to start without ensuring that you can persevere to the end, small lapse weakens the motivation to persevere to the end.

From Day 1 to 7, users require constant reminders to keep to their resolutions, the resulting behaviors are deliberate and unnatural. The initial novelty of wearing the fitness trackers allows users to overcome this period easily.

From Day 8 to 21, users require conscious control to steer away from urges and temptations; behaviors become deliberate but natural at this stage.

From Day 22 to 91, users behaviors become unconscious and natural, users no longer require reminders and conscious control.

Bluetooth Wireless Synchronization

Star.21 consists of a fitness band and a mobile application that works on both iOS and Android. The fitness band measures and records motion which is transmitted to the smartphone via Bluetooth BLE. These data is then presented graphically on the smartphone for easy visualization. Alternatively users can look at the daily progress from the LEDs array on the fitness band.

Daily Steps Counter

Star.21's all-day steps trackers let users understand how active they are throughout the day, keeping the daily goals within sight. It helps users stay inline with the goals, achieving one goal at a time. Star.21 provides achievable daily goals that help users to stay on track in the first 21 days and cultivate a long lasting healthy habit naturally.

Sleep Pattern Monitor

Star.21 monitors your sleeping patterns and provide insights to the quality of your sleep. Helping you develop better sleeping habits.

Calories Consumption

Star.21 provides users with insights to their calories consumption that they exhaust throughout the day and taking into consideration of the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR).

Gamification

The built-in game helps users visualize the milestones; tracking the progress to ensure users achieve goals that are inline with the 21-day habit formation plan. The incremental goals layout in the game allows attainment of the easier goals before moving on to harder ones This helps to cultivate the habit built on a firm foundation and confidence.

Hardware Features

Sleep Alarm - Star.21's sleep reminder function provide a reminder to sleep. Wake Up Call - The silent alarm will vibrate to wake you up in the morning.

The product design team avoided using numbers to show daily statistics; instead we opted for a LEDs array. By using the LEDs array to show their daily progress in percentages, we help the users visualize their personal progress in a simpler form without direct comparison to the other users. We minimized discouragements and unnecessary pressure from competition.

Specifications

7-Day Data Backup

Splash Proof

15-Day battery life

USB Charging, charging via the most universal charging option used on most smartphones

Design

Star.21 is designed for the chic and fashionable in mind. Its multi faceted design gives a dazzling glow to the bracelet; beneath the faceted surfaces are 21 LEDS that shine like stars indicating daily progress. The slim and lightweight design makes it indiscernible to the wearers.

In addition, the bio-compatible thermoplastic polyurethane material makes it suitable for wearing it daily without causing skin allergies.

Challenges

During product development and various prototyping stages, we have tested numerous materials and different levels of transparency to achieve the desired lighting effect per the original design intention. The mechanical engineers and industrial designers experimented with different light guide designs approach. In fact two plastic injection molds were fabricated to determine the light guide design required to achieve the star-like lighting effect.

The Star.21 fitness band puts a constraint on the battery size; our electronic engineers optimized the power consumption of various components to provide power to light up the 21 brilliant LED lights. 8 different types of LEDs were tested to determine the one with the right balance of brightness and power consumption.

Choice of Materials
Comfort was the most critical consideration in the material selection. To ensure Star.21 is suitable for all day wearing. We seek to find a material that is dermatological safe, dirt resistant, light weight and have the right hardness. We went through intensive testing during the injection molding and pilot production to find the right mix of thermoplastic polyurethane.

Although we managed to achieve 15 days of battery life from a single charge, the development team went a step further striving to make charging more convenient. The choice of charging via a micro USB cable makes it more convenient. Most fitness bands have propriety charging connectors or wireless charging that requires users to bring additional charging apparatus. The micro USB allows it be charged via the computer's USB port or smartphones adaptors which are easily available.

The micro USB posed additional problems to the mechanical design; the mechanical engineers have to overcome the waterproof issue that comes with micro USB port. Through elaborated design in the plastic housing and USB Port cover, we are able to achieve a dust and water resistant rating of IPX6.

Water Proofing
The mechanical engineers thoughtfully designed the softer thermoplastic polyurethane around the gaps to prevent moisture from slipping through them. This design eliminated the need for additional sealant gasket as the same softer thermoplastic polyurethane used in the band acts as the sealing gasket as well.

This makes Star.21 capable of handling everyday elements; users would not need to take additional care of the fitness band, making it truly inconspicuous.

Battery
Battery life was a major concern to the development team, as we do not want any lapse in tracking to affect the cultivation of habits. The small size of the fitness band forbids larger battery.

The electronics engineers went to great lengths to optimize the power consumption in every component to achieve an ultra low power optimization.

We tested numerous makes of lithium polymer battery over a month to find one to meet our stringent requirements.