This App Will Track Your Habits and Grow Your Life Insurance

Did you struggle to keep a routine? Did watching “another episode” of your favorite TV series wake you up and interfere with your exercise habits? It's time to change that. And thanks to the new partnership between Samsung South Africa, 1Life, LifeQ and VeoSens, it's easy to get back on track.

The partnership has created the world's first life insurance ecosystem – 1Life Pulse, which is designed to help you improve your lifestyle in the long term.

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1Life Pulse is a sophisticated lifestyle monitoring and management system that tracks and controls your heart, activity and sleep, thus monitoring your general well-being.

This is an absolute game changer for South Africans as it reviews two very important fields: health and finance. Every time eligible policyholders decide to get a little more sleep or go for a walk, for example, they can add up to R216 per day or up to R6 560 per month to their life insurance from day one. Over the course of two years, they can add up to R200,000 to their additional life insurance as their wellbeing grows. This product is an innovative approach that picks up on the latest trends in life insurance and at the same time makes a lasting difference where it matters most.

Smart partnerships with killer advantages

When imaginative companies work together, they can bring about evolutionary change in unexpected ways. Samsung worked with LifeQ on the first commercial launch of VeoSens – a portable, fully integrated insurance and health management solution developed in partnership with Samsung and Hannover Re. The aim is to bring life insurance, technology and science together in a simple way and to provide consumers with achievable, dynamic and long-term value for better decisions regarding their wellbeing.

Samsung is constantly evaluating strategic partnerships that not only strengthen the Galaxy ecosystem, but above all offer an unparalleled user experience combined with exceptional consumer benefits. The electronics giant therefore saw the opportunity to offer both a smart health solution and greater value to consumers looking to improve their lives. The aim is to use technology with the potential to change life – both from a health technology and long-term life insurance perspective.

The fact is that health technology is an exciting and rapidly growing market as wearables and sensors become more advanced, affordable, and more common in our everyday lives. The partners in this groundbreaking collaboration can now harness the power of technology to reshape the life insurance landscape by bringing cutting-edge technologies to market that will usher in a new age in long-term insurance technology.

Get a Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2

All qualified new 1Life policyholders who purchase coverage for R1 million or more can choose to receive a Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 that is chipped with their 1Life insurance number. The Galaxy Watch Active2 now comes with a larger customizable screen and a fresh new look. It gives you precise health insights when you need them, while keeping you fully connected. Whether you're jogging or meeting your next deadline, the Galaxy Watch Active2 ensures that you work optimally inside and out.

In the area of wearables, low-frequency measurements based on annual and episodic data, such as However, with 1Life Pulse, VeoSens provides a real-time snapshot of general wellbeing that allows users to see the effects of simple lifestyle changes.

LifeQ's solutions are based on industry-leading computational systems biology and on modeling the body's physiological systems and how they interact with one another. LifeQ offers four custom health metrics for heart, activity, sleep, and fitness. These scores give users a real understanding of their current health and wellbeing and the impact of changes in lifestyle and behavior – beyond just counting steps and visits to the gym.

And now you can start growing your life insurance simply by downloading and activating the VeoSens app from Samsung and LifeQ. In fact, as soon as you take out insurance you will earn R50,000 on your life insurance right away! From there, every time the Galaxy Watch Active2 is buckled up, you can upgrade your additional life insurance in two ways. 50% by simply monitoring your activities and another 50% by making positive changes.

The 1Life Pulse product powered by your Galaxy Watch Active2 will help you realize that even the smallest lifestyle changes can improve your wellbeing while increasing your life insurance coverage at the same time. This is a great example of companies banding together to transform an entire industry and make a meaningful difference in our lives.

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