August 2024 Updates

🎉 Terra introduces a customizable Rewards system, new Health Scores, and device prioritization for seamless syncing of data across multiple wearables! 💪🚀

New Rewards Product Released 🏆:

🔌 What?

We’ve introduced a customizable point-tracking system that rewards users for improving or maintaining their health metrics based on their personal baselines. Unlike traditional fitness rewards based on absolute achievement, this system emphasizes personal improvement and inclusivity by tracking progress and rewarding users for staying active and healthy.

🤔 Why?

Many of our customers are building rewards systems based on physical activity to keep users engaged and motivated, especially in sectors like health insurance. This product simplifies the process, providing developers with an easy-to-use, customizable solution to keep users active and healthy through gamification and rewards.

💻 How?

As users’ data flows through Terra, we calculate their personal baselines and determine whether their current activity or health metrics meet or exceed their historical performance. This allows developers to set thresholds and award points for different achievements. Developers can fully customize point thresholds, streaks, and other reward parameters, making the system adaptable for different use cases.

New Terra Health Scores: Immunity Index & Respiratory Health Score! 🧬

📅 What?

We’ve just added two new health scores to enhance how users understand their health: the Immunity Index, which detects early signs that the immune system is compromised, and the Respiratory Health Score, which tracks cardiovascular health through metrics like SpO2 and respiration rate.

🤔 Why?

Understanding health metrics can be complex. These new scores provide a simplified, holistic view of a user’s health by focusing on personalized baselines rather than population-based metrics. By adding more scores, we help users track multiple dimensions of their health, offering a better overall picture of their well-being and improvements over time.

💻 How?

We’ve worked closely with early adopters and our internal teams to develop these hyper-personalized scores. By analyzing historical data on users’ sleep, activity, and health, we detect small deviations that could indicate early signs of illness for the Immunity Index. Similarly, the Respiratory Health Score helps users understand their respiratory system’s capacity and resilience based on their activity levels and biometrics.

Device Prioritization Added: 🔄 

⌚️ ️‍What?

Developers can now set device priority for different data sources. For example, if a user prefers sleep data from their Oura Ring but activity data from their Garmin watch, developers can prioritize which data sources sync with Terra. This prevents conflicting data from multiple devices.

🤔 Why?

Many users connect multiple wearables, which can lead to data duplication and confusion. By allowing device prioritization, we eliminate this issue, giving users more control over their data and ensuring developers have clean, deduplicated information to work with.

💻 How?

Using a reference_id, Terra identifies which devices are connected to a user’s account. Based on the priority settings configured by the developer, Terra selects the appropriate device to pull data from for each specific data type, preventing duplication and ensuring only the preferred device data is synced.

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