MARKET INTELLIGENCE 市场情报 42 | JNA November/December 2024 The era of smart fine jewellery has arrived, and more and more companies are jumping on this exciting bandwagon. The main challenge, however, is combining key value factors inherent in fine jewellery with technology’s extraordinary functionality. Most wearable tech devices on the market do not fall into a jewellery category but are separate product types created by non-jewellery companies mainly as metrics to monitor one’s health, sleep patterns and heart activity, to name a few. Produced using non-precious materials like titanium or steel, these rechargeable gadgets are enabled by Bluetooth Low Energy or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, allowing them to perform smart activities via a smart phone. The Oura ring is a pioneering sleep-performance platform and device launched in 2013 by tech entrepreneurs in Finland. A similar interactive health and wellness tracker is RingConn, unveiled in 2021 by biomedical circuits expert Guoxing Wang of the University of California, Santa Cruz. The titanium ring is positioned as a 24/7 Health Keeper Companion, is water resistant for up to 50 metres and has a seven-day battery life. But jewellery tech pioneers such as artist and inventor Chi Huynh, founder of Galatea Jewelry in San Dimas, California, has been working diligently since 2014 to bring fine precious metal jewellery into the smart age while holding on to the ethos of beauty and refinement. Chi’s passion was focused on developing a digital communicator of love, romance and commitment – the traditional value factor of fine jewels. His choice of tech is Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, which is under the RFID umbrella but vibrates at a single frequency of 13.56 MHz and uses electromagnetic induction theory to enable data on a chip to function in two-way communication. When NFC technology became universally used on smart phones by 2019, Galatea completed inventions to incorporate NFC in fine jewellery and won several patents. The most recent, granted in end-2023, involved embedding an NFC chip in precious metal to be paired and read by a smart phone using a dedicated App. Galatea’s patents include method and apparatus for virtually writing to an NFC; use of NFC-chip gems; jewellery with security bezel for regulating NFC; and an NFC-ring-based, terminal-less payment system. In early 2024, Galatea launched the Momento Smart Diamond Collection with NFC chips embedded in 14-karat gold with diamonds. “This is a huge breakthrough – the birth of fine smart jewellery,” Chi enthused. “When it connects with your phone's NFC capabilities, it instantly transfers your precious SMART FINE JEWELLERY 智能高级珠宝新时代 THE AGE OF | Jennifer Henricus | After more than a decade of intense research and anticipation, smart jewellery pioneers are excited about a technology shift that could usher in new possibilities for fine jewellery to finally step into the smart category. 经过十多年的深入研究，智能珠宝先驱喜见 在技术上取得突破性的进展，见证高级珠宝领域的各种可能性。 Galatea's Momento Smart Diamond Collection Galatea Momento智能钻饰系列
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