Fitbit Founders Launch Luffu, A Way To Integrate Your Family's Health Data

Fitbit's founders person a caller startup. Two years aft leaving Google, James Park and Eric Friedman announced a caller level that shifts nan attraction from nan individual to nan family. They opportunity nan Luffu mobile app "uses AI softly successful nan background" to cod and shape family wellness information.

"At Fitbit, we focused connected individual wellness — but aft Fitbit, wellness for maine became bigger than conscionable reasoning astir myself," Park said successful a property release. The app is peculiarly focused connected nan "CEO of nan family" — nan personification who manages appointments, prescriptions and different health-related tasks.

But nan meaning of family isn't constricted to parents raising children. The institution sees its instrumentality arsenic particularly valuable for caregivers successful their 40s and 50s who whitethorn beryllium managing nan needs of some aging parents and kids. It moreover tracks pets' wellness habits.

"We're managing attraction crossed 3 generations — kids astatine home, engaged parents successful nan middle, and my dada successful his 80s who's surviving pinch glucosuria and still wants to enactment fiercely independent," Friedman wrote. "And nan moments that matter astir are often nan astir chaotic: a late-night fever, a abrupt urgent attraction visit, a expert asking questions you can't reply quickly because nan specifications are scattered."

The institution claims nan app's AI "isn't a chatbot layer." Rather, it serves arsenic a "guardian" — proactively monitoring for changes silently successful nan background. The AI past provides insights and triggers alerts erstwhile thing is retired of whack. You tin besides inquire nan app wellness information questions utilizing plain connection (so, location is immoderate benignant of chatbot) and stock information pinch family members.

The institution intelligibly wants to make entering information arsenic easy arsenic possible. Luffu allows family members to log info utilizing voice, matter aliases photos. It integrates pinch wellness platforms specified arsenic Apple Health and Fitbit. And nan institution yet wants to grow into a hardware ecosystem — presumably, devices that make wellness information postulation moreover easier.

Speaking of information collection, Luffu says, "Users are ever successful power of precisely what is shared, pinch whom, and privateness and information are paramount for each family data." In addition, nan institution told Axios that users tin take whether their information is utilized to train its AI. On nan different hand, Big Tech has many times shown that its astir egregious data-collection practices are ever wrapped successful comforting language. So, astatine nan very least, I'd return their transportation pinch grains of brackish and, astir importantly, make judge each family personnel knows precisely what they're consenting to. After all, this is simply a for-profit company, and we don’t yet cognize its monetization strategy.

Luffu is presently successful a constricted nationalist beta. You tin study much and motion up for nan waitlist connected nan company website.