Ultrahuman, a Bengaluru-based health tech startup, has partnered with Abu Dhabi health authorities to develop a biological-age model, which will eventually be rolled out across the United Arab Emirates. The model combines clinical biomarkers with data from wearable devices to estimate an individual’s aging rate.

Ultrahuman CEO Mohit Kumar sees this as a move beyond selling hardware to deploying health algorithms at a larger scale. The startup has sold around 800,000 smart rings globally and hopes to use the partnership to apply its algorithms to a far broader population.

The biological-age model is designed to be wearable-agnostic, allowing data from rings, wrist-worn devices, straps, and patches to feed into the system. Individuals will be able to access their health age through government digital-health platforms, including TAMM and Sahatna.

The partnership is Ultrahuman’s first step toward deploying a health algorithm at a national scale and marks a significant move towards the company’s vision of becoming a health-data company. The broader rollout will happen in phases, but no timeline has been provided.

Ultrahuman is not the only smart-ring maker working with Abu Dhabi on preventive health. The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi has also partnered with Ultrahuman’s competitor, Oura, to combine wearable data with longitudinal health data, initially focusing on women’s health and cardiometabolic risk.