Apple Watch bands could identity with wrist sensor
By MYBRANDBOOK
Technology is getting so advanced, that the sensor could look at patterns in your skin. Apple has filed a patent for a biometric sensor built into a watch band. The sensor could detect pattens in a user's skin and the sensor may also look at patterns in the hair on your wrist.
Apple has explored biometrics with features like Touch ID and Face ID. Now, the company is exploring a new way to authenticate your identity with what could become known as "Wrist ID."
A patent uncovered by Patently Apple(via 9to5Mac) describes a biometric sensor that's built into a watch band designed for Apple Watch. Apparently, the wrist biometric sensor would "acquire skin texture pattern images" to authenticate a user's identity.
A wearable electronic device may include a device body and a device band coupled to the device body for securing the device to a wrist of a user. The wearable electronic device may also include a wrist biometric sensor carried by one of the device body and the device band. The wrist biometric sensor may include biometric sensing pixels. The wearable electronic device may also include a processor coupled to the wrist biometric sensor and configured to cooperate with the biometric sensing pixels to acquire skin texture pattern images from adjacent portions of the user's wrist, and perform at least one authentication function based upon the skin texture pattern images.
The patent goes on to say the wrist biometric sensor may also take into account the hair on a user's wrist for authentication. If the method works as Apple describes, authenticating your identity and making payments could be easier than ever, because all that's required is for you to wear the device.
Apple has kept its bands relatively simple so far for the sake of keeping them swappable; they come in all sorts of materials and colors, but the electronic bits are contained within the Watch itself. Adding sensors and indicators to the band complicates that. As the user you’d have to decide: do you want the band you like the most on your wrist, or the one with the fancy notification lights?
An expert believes, that this innovation will boost the sales of Apple watches to go into production. In the coming days, in case your wrist band breaks, the one has to get replaced with the sensor based belts only. The Apple watch will identify the person and the ownership and more importantly, it will come to know about ur issues related to the skin and health issues, to send alerts whenever it needed.
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