How Your Smartwatch Can Detect Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Episode 120 of The Wearable Tech Podcast explores a surprising new capability in consumer wearables: detecting carbon monoxide exposure. Lucas and Luna discuss how pulse oximetry sensors and machine learning algorithms can identify CO poisoning before symptoms become severe. They break down a 2025 study from the University of Colorado showing that modified smartwatch algorithms detected elevated CO levels with 94% accuracy in emergency room patients. The conversation covers the limitations of current consumer devices, the potential for software updates to add CO detection to existing hardware, and why this matters for public health—especially during winter months when heating-related CO incidents spike. The hosts also touch on the regulatory hurdles that could delay widespread deployment and compare CO detection to other health monitoring features that have migrated from medical-grade to consumer wearables. #CarbonMonoxide #SmartwatchHealth #PulseOximetry #WearableTech #HealthMonitoring #MachineLearning #COPoisoning #PublicHealth #UniversityOfColorado #WearableSensors #Tech #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #HealthTech #SafetyTech #SmartwatchSensors #CODetection #WearableAlgorithms Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo