Google Research Introduces SensorFM: A Wearable Health Foundation Model Pretrained on One Trillion Minutes of Sensor Data
Most wearable health models are built one outcome at a time. That approach breaks down at thirty-five endpoints. Labels are expensive and retrospective annotation is infeasible. Google Research introduced SensorFM, a foundation model for wearable health pre-trained on more than 1 trillion minutes of sensor data from 5 million people. https://ift.tt/VZrNcgC What is SensorFM? SensorFM is a Large Sensor foundation Model for wearable time-series representation learning. It ingests 34 one-minute aggregate features drawn from five sensors: PPG, accelerometer, EDA, skin temperature, and altimeter. Those features are organized into seven categories, over a 24-hour context window. The backbone is a ViT-1D encoder trained with a masked-autoencoder objective and a patch size of [20, 1]. Pretraining used 5,000,000 consented participants, sampled between September 2024 and September 2025. That corpus spans 100+ countries, all 50 U.S. states, and 20+ Fitbit and Pixel Watch mode...
