Altrahuman and Abu Dhabi use biological-age algorithms to move smart rings onto public-health platforms

India-based health-technology company Altrahuman signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Public Health Center to develop a biological-age calculation model and clinically validate its accuracy in preparation for making it available to residents of the United Arab Emirates. The step aims to combine clinical biomarkers with data streams from wearable devices to estimate the pace of aging and to identify biological factors linked to sleep, physical activity, cardiovascular health and metabolism that may accelerate or slow that pace.

The agreement represents an explicit shift in the startup’s business model, which is based in Bangalore and has sold roughly 800,000 smart rings worldwide, as it seeks to move beyond consumer-hardware sales toward a platform for processing preventive health data at a national scale.The value of the devices no longer resides in the ring form itself, but in the algorithmic architecture capable of extracting biomarkers.Moehit Kumar, the company’s chief executive officer, explained that the model is designed to be device-agnostic, receiving measurements from rings, watches, bands and medical patches alongside clinical tests, with plans to roll it out gradually through government digital platforms such as Tam and Sehatna.

The core algorithm relies on globally accumulated Altrahuman user data that links chronological age with wearable device signals and blood-test results for a subset of users to monitor normal changes and points of deviation. Kumar affirmed that the model will not be trained on Emirati population data; instead it will be deployed to process those data without giving the company access to personally identifiable information, in strict adherence to privacy protocols and health-data governance.

The United Arab Emirates ranks among the company’s top ten markets globally, contributing between 4 % and 5 % of its total revenue, with a user-retention rate about 25 % higher than in its other markets over five years of local operation.Working with a government health system moves the algorithm from a consumer segment limited to ages 25 to 43 to an impact test across broader age groups.The trajectory coincides with Altrahuman’s effort to develop a smart ring capable of running software directly on the device to handle computational interactions and locally-executed AI applications.

The company is not operating in a vacuum in Abu Dhabi, as the emirate’s health authority announced in May a similar partnership with its main rival Aura to link its device data with longitudinal health records, initially focusing on women’s health and cardiac-metabolic risk. The competition reflects an international race among wearable-hardware makers to gain a foothold inside government health systems that are driving the shift toward proactive preventive care.

The development imposes a direct operational reality on the health-care and technology sectors in the Gulf, Egypt and the wider region, putting health insurers under pressure to repricing their policies based on predictive biological-age models rather than relying solely on downstream disease data. It also requires local health-tech developers to abandon hardware monopolies, building services that integrate with device-agnostic APIs, while adhering to strict sovereign standards that separate algorithm deployment from personal-data storage within national borders.