Built for the five days of Hajj
A watch with its own line, its own number and its own battery. It charges once during the five days of Hajj, on a magnetic cable from any USB socket, and the group leader is told before it runs low. Everything else in the specification follows from the crowd, and from the heat.
- Battery
- 4d
- Maker’s figure. One charge during Hajj
- Sealed
- IP68
- Wudu, rain, sweat, Zamzam
- Own line
- 4G
- Calls and location, no phone
- Phones needed
- 0
- Its own SIM, its own battery
Worn for the whole pilgrimage
Fitted at the origin airport, before the group flies. One adult case with a strap that adjusts to the wrist, so nothing is cut or shaped to the individual, which is what keeps it on the right side of the ihram restriction.
It comes off with a buckle whenever the wearer wants. Removal outside a charging window raises a quiet notice to the group leader, never an emergency. A safety device somebody cannot take off is a restraint, and that is a different product with different ethics.
Pre-production sample. The dial is our rendering; final industrial design may differ.
Four vibrations, each with one meaning
The screen shows a short line in the wearer’s language, but nothing safety-critical depends on reading it. Everything the watch says back to the wearer is also haptic. The patterns are deliberately few and deliberately distinct, and they are taught once at fitting while the group is still in one room at the origin airport.
Two short pulses
Your alert went out.
One long, repeating
Someone has acknowledged and is coming.
Three sharp pulses
Stay where you are. Someone is walking to you.
One soft pulse
Your family is calling. Press once to answer.
Capabilities
A guide that knows where you are standing
The watch resolves your position to the place you are in, and tells you: the rite performed here, or the history of the ground you are on.
Most pilgrims perform Hajj once, briefed by a booklet read on the plane. The watch closes that gap at the moment it opens. Approach the mataf and it tells you how tawaf is performed; stand at Muzdalifah and it tells you what this night is; pause at the foot of Jabal an-Nur (where nothing at all is required of you) and it tells you that near the summit is the cave where revelation began. Spoken through the watch’s own speaker or a paired earpiece, and shown on the screen in large type, in your language, triggered by where you are. Nothing to search for and nothing to operate. It is an informational guide, not a religious authority: on any question of validity it tells you to ask your group’s scholar, by name.
Live location, continuously
Where your pilgrim is, right now, on a map, shared with named family and with their registered group leader.
The watch reports its own position on its own 4G connection. There is no phone in the chain, so a flat battery, a phone left in the hotel safe, or a handset the wearer cannot operate does not create a gap. During the days when the networks around the Haram and the camps are saturated, the watch is designed to hold its readings and send them the moment there is capacity, so the trail is complete even where the live view was not.
One press. It calls your family.
Hold the side key. The alert goes out with live location, and the watch then rings up to three family numbers in turn, over its own line.
This is the capability the whole product exists for. A large share of pilgrims are elderly, are abroad for the first time, and do not read Arabic or English. Every phone-based safety tool assumes the person in trouble can unlock a device, find an icon, and read a confirmation. Under heat stress, in a crowd, at night, that assumption fails. Press and hold the side key for three seconds; the watch vibrates twice to confirm the alert has gone out, then dials the family numbers one after another until somebody answers. It keeps vibrating on acknowledgement so the wearer knows someone is coming.
Two-way calls, only with people you chose
Family can ring the watch and the wearer can ring back. Nobody else can reach it.
The watch carries its own number. Calls are limited to the family and group-leader numbers loaded before departure, so a stranger, a scam call or a wrong number never reaches the wrist. The wearer answers with one press and talks to the watch; nothing is dialled, searched or typed. There is no remote listen-in function on this watch: it is removed from our firmware build as a condition of supply, and we say so in writing because it is the first thing a careful family should ask.
Fall detection with escalation
A hard fall raises an alert automatically. Silence is treated as the emergency it usually is.
If the watch detects a fall it prompts the wearer to cancel. No cancellation within thirty seconds escalates the same way a pressed SOS would, with the last known position attached. A fall in a stairwell, at the Jamarat, or in a hotel bathroom stops being something discovered hours later.
Group perimeter alerts
The group leader knows the moment somebody leaves the camp, the hotel, or the procession.
A leader draws a perimeter around the Mina camp, the hotel in Aziziyah, or the route to the Haram. Anyone crossing it raises a named alert on the console. Most separations are recoverable if you know within two minutes; they become searches when you find out at the evening headcount.
Reunite mode
When a pilgrim is separated, the watch guides the person walking toward them.
Once a separation is confirmed, whoever is closest gets a bearing and distance that update as they move, instead of a static pin they must interpret against an unfamiliar street layout. The wearer’s watch vibrates in a distinct pattern and shows “Stay where you are” in their language, which is the single hardest thing to communicate to a frightened person who does not share your language.
Specification
These are design targets and the maker’s own figures for pre-production hardware, not measured results from a production run. They may change before manufacture, and where they do we will say so rather than quietly editing the page.
Connectivity
- Cellular
- 4G LTE with voice over LTE. Band set for the Gulf and Saudi networks on the Gulf variant; final band list confirmed with the production run.
- SIM
- Nano-SIM fitted and paid for by us before dispatch. Nothing to insert, activate or top up.
- Positioning
- GPS and BeiDou, with Wi-Fi and cell-tower assist indoors and in the Haram.
- Without signal
- Designed to hold readings on the watch and send them when the network returns. To be confirmed on production firmware.
Power
- Battery
- 800 mAh. The maker’s figure is about four days at ten-minute reporting; we will publish our own measurement before the first season.
- Charging
- Magnetic contact cable to any USB socket. No exposed port to seal or corrode. One charge during the five days of Hajj.
- Low battery
- Group leader is warned at 20%, family at 10%.
Sensing
- Fall detection
- 3-axis accelerometer, three sensitivity levels, 30-second cancel window.
- Heart rate and SpO2
- Optical sensor on the case back. Heart rate on a schedule, SpO2 on request. For the family, not for diagnosis.
- Wear detection
- Alerts if the watch is taken off outside a registered charging window.
- Heat strain
- Not on the standard watch. A variant with a skin-temperature sensor is available to operators on request.
Physical
- Sealing
- IP68 claimed by the maker. We immersion-test every production batch ourselves before it ships.
- Case
- Round, about 46 mm across and 16 mm deep. Polycarbonate with a plain metal-effect bezel.
- Weight
- About 36 g without strap.
- Strap
- Ihram-safe: unstitched, unknotted, single-piece silicone with a smooth buckle. Replaceable.
- Sizes
- One adult case size; the strap adjusts to the wrist.
Controls
- SOS
- Side key, three-second hold, double-vibration and on-screen confirmation, then calls to up to three family numbers in turn.
- Calls
- Two-way, limited to the family and group-leader numbers we load. The watch cannot be called by anyone else.
- Screen
- Round colour touch screen with large type. Every safety function works without touching it.
- Guide audio
- Spoken through the watch’s speaker or a paired earpiece, and shown on screen. Optional: the guide is a layer on top of the safety core, and the watch is fully functional without it.
- Language
- Watch prompts and the guide in 12 languages at launch.
- Listening in
- None. The remote listen-in function is removed from our firmware build as a condition of supply.
The guide
- Positioning
- Resolves the wearer’s location to the sacred sites: the Haram, the Mas’a, Mina, Arafah, Muzdalifah, the Jamarat, and the sites of Madinah
- At a rite
- Names the rite performed at that place, when it is due, and what it consists of
- Elsewhere
- Tells the history and significance of the place the wearer is standing
- Timing
- Day-aware: on 9 Dhul Hijjah at Arafah it explains wuquf, not sightseeing
- Authority
- Informational only. On any question of validity it directs the wearer to their group’s scholar. It issues no rulings.
Designed to be wearable in ihram
The strap is a single unstitched, unknotted piece of silicone with a smooth buckle, in the same category as a wristwatch or a medical alert bracelet, items widely held by scholars to be permissible in ihram because they are worn, not sewn to fit the body. We put this in front of you rather than in a footnote because it is the first question every operator asks. We are not a religious authority: we have built the watch so that the ruling is straightforward, and we encourage groups to confirm with the scholar they already rely on.
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