Fb Inc is constructing a smartwatch that can let customers ship messages and likewise provide well being and health options, The Info reported on Friday, citing folks with direct information of the gadget.

The social media large plans to begin promoting the gadget subsequent yr, in response to the report, a transfer that might mark its entry right into a market at the moment dominated by Apple Inc and Huawei.

Fb’s smartwatch will work through a mobile connection, letting customers ship messages by means of its companies and likewise connect with the companies or {hardware} of well being and health firms, equivalent to Peloton Interactive, in response to the report.

Menlo Park, California-based Fb has been foraying into the {hardware} sector in recent times, developing with merchandise together with digital actuality headset Oculus and video chatting gadget Portal.

Fb didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for remark.