ubiquitous training

Ubiquitous TrainingTechnologies in support of sports

Ernesto Cecco D’Ortona Simone Nencini Salvatore Tinebra Nicola Vampiro

Why is it important?

Technology as doping

During Training After Training

Running

TomTom Smartwatch Nike+ Lechal Shoes Sensoria Fitness Socks Fly Fit Smart Sensing Pill


TomTom Smartwatch• It measures with precision heart rate with Mio optical

sensor; this sensor, in contact with skin, together with a light marker, monitors variations of blood flow

• You have to insert your data and choose training type between print, velocity, resistance, fitness and easy

• Tomtom smartwatch helps to keep ideal heart rate to reach goals

• With an acoustic alert and vibrations runners know if they are training in the correct way, if they have to reduce speed or ease in

• It has Bluetooth Smart integrated, with which it can synchronize activity with services like TomTom MySports, MapMyFitness, RunKeeper, TrainingPeaks e Strava


Nike+• Designed for runners who love run listening to music

and measure and track their progress in goals achievement

• Nike+ shoes: they have a specially designed pocket under the sockliner of the left shoe that is designed to hold a Nike+ Sensor

• Nike+ sensor: it switches on automatically when you start running or walking; it measures carriage, distance, time-expired and burnt calories

• Information are sent wireless to a reception device with the Nike+ app (iPod nano, iPod touch 2G, iPhone 3GS and following)

• Runners receive an immediate audio feedback in real time while they’re listening to music

• iPod and iPhone devices can stored more than 1000 runnings


Lechal Shoes/Insoles• The shoes and insoles were originally designed to help blind

people navigate, in conjunction with a cane

• They are intuitive and non-obtrusive thus offering easy mobility and convenience to the user; he’s guided through vibrations in the footwear that are simple and intuitive

• An app loaded on a smartphone pairs with the footwear via Bluetooth. The user interacts with the app and can set a destination. The phone’s GPS is used to calculate location data

• The shoes are integrated with Google Maps

• Footwear counts steps, and calculates the calories burnt. Through the App the user can create custom workout sessions and much more

• Lechal footwear allows to tag locations, set destinations, start/stop/pause navigation and much more, all by executing simple foot gestures

• Lechal footwear alerts you if your phone is not in close proximity


Sensoria Fitness Socks• One pair of smart socks completely made high-tech running

friendly fabric

• One electronic anklet that magnetically snaps on the cuff of one of the sock

• A dedicated mobile application that monitors and guides you through real-time audio cues while you run

• Texile sensors are paired with a Bluetooth Smart cool and detachable anklet

• Step counting, speed, calories burnt, altitude and distance tracking

• It also tracks cadence with Cadence Metronome, foot landing technique with a Cauge and weight distribution on the foot as you walk and run

• Sensoria helps you to identify injury-prone running styles, the mobile app coaches the runner in real-time via audio cues

• The dashboard can also help achieve goals, improve performance and reduce risk of gravitating back to bad tendencies


Fly Fit• Device to track and monitor physical activity

• It’s a small device that athletes could almost forget they were wearing

• Hidden inside the Flyfit band is an advanced module that seam-lessly collects real-time data from every action in a day (Blue-tooth 4.0/BLE technology)

• The technology is extremely easy to use with just a few taps of the finger, and provides real-time data that you can actually uti-lize during workouts and throughout the day

• Flyfit contains a LED panel with four symbols to represent each of the main tracking functions:

Daily Activity: walking, running, cycling & stair types of fitnessSleep: number of hours and qualitySwim: leg strokes

• It tracks step speed, step distance, calories burnt, bike distance, bike speed, pedal cycles

• It also tracks leg movement: able to differentiate step, stairs, cy-cling automatically with gesture recognition technique


Smart Sensing• T-shirt woven with integral micro-sensors to add the practical

benefit of monitoring the health and fatigue levels of the wearer

• Micro-sensors send data to a small detachable transmitter on the back of the shirt. This in turn sends the data to a smartphone via Bluetooth. At the end of each session, the app gives you a summary of your route, time, speed, heart rate, and calories burned. It lets runners monitor their workout in real time or lets them see their stats at home

• Transmissions can only be made up to 10 metres away from the phone, so if it is left at home the data will arrive when the runner returns

• The App stores and analyzes data from the fabric, showing if the person wearing the garment is tired, stressed, or in the path of an imminent heart attack

• Developers are working on heat, respiration, and perspiration sensors as well

• GPS, heart-rate monitor, accelerometer and altimeter


Pill• Produced by Health Proteus Digital of Redwood City in California

• Materials: silicon microchips with magnesium and copper

• After ingestion, they electronically react to the contact with stomach acids

• Pills send out a signal to a peel-and-stick biometric sensor patch attached to our skin

• The patch captures and relays body’s physiologic responses and behaviors

• It receives information from the ingestible sensor: detects heart rate, activity and rest

• The patch sends out a message to the mobile device

• Using a Bluetooth-enabled device, you can access secure applications that display your data in context and support care in a variety of different ways

• The pills can control if the athletes have assumed medicines, especially the athletes who suffer from chronic diseases

Golf

Game Golf Trackman Golf TomTom Golfer


Game Golf• Digital Tracking System and SkyCaddie Golf Swing Analyzer

• Combines GPS and motion sensing technology to track every shot

• The Game Golf device is sturdy, compact and weather resistant

• The device can store up to nine rounds of golf and go about 10 hours or 36 holes before needing to be charged. When charging, a user can either plug in the device to their computer using the provided USB cable or they can connect the cable directly into an iPhone wall charger

• The visual map overlay of your previously signed rounds

• Share your rounds, stats, records and more with the GAME community and your friends on Facebook and Twitter

• All statistical parts of your game are recorded, calculated and displayed as trends over time, so learning about and improving your game is based on facts


Trackman Golf• High-speed video from TrackMan’s internal camera

• Graphics overlay of target line, club data, and trajectory

• TrackMan Combine benchmarking tool

• Customizable 3D club, trajectory and data views

• Normalization – adjust for ball type and weather

• One-click sharing of reports and data via. mytrackman.com

• Requires a TrackMan Pro radar device

• The TrackMan Golf app allows the user to control the radar directly from their iPhone or iPad. Fast and easy target selection, data tagging, video analysis and easy data sharing makes the TrackMan app a convenient and user-friendly experience

• The viewer mode allows for multiple devices (iPhone, iPad, or computer) to be connected to the radar at the same time


TomTom Golfer• GPS sports watch

• More than 34 thousand golf courses for which data are available on the screen of the device to the wrist

• Wireless: Updates the fields are shared wirelessly via an application for smartphones, so that all fans can be sure to always play with the data of the most up to date

• Precise measurements of the distance from the front, center and back of the green

• Display of the distances from the individual obstacles on the fairway

• Visualize exclusive charts on the greens and obstacles before each shot

• Display of distance remaining on your point of lay-up

• Keeps track of the score, the distance and the time for the round

• Suitable for any condition metero and waterproof

Swimming

Instabeat X-Metrics

Instabeat X-Metrics

Instabeat• All-in-one swimming monitor tracks heart rate to offer real-time

feedback when you’re in the pool, lake or ocean

• The device mounts on the straps of any swimming goggles

• Uses patent-pending technology to read the heart rate from the temporal artery

• This information is communicated to the wearer using a series of color-coded LEDs

• Built-in lithium-ion battery offers eight hours of usage

• Information can be synched to a computer through the USB port

Instabeat X-Metrics

X-Metrics• Back-head position

• Real-time audio feedback

• Programmable training

• Customizable feedback

• Track Your Performance

• Keep Track of Your Goals

• Frequency Warning

• Turn and Stroke

• Calories burned count

• Social network integration

• Third part integration

Snowboarding

Airwave Ski Goggles Nokia Push Snowboarding


Airwave Ski Goggles• Fighter pilot-style screen on the inside of the lens, displaying

a skier’s speed, location, altitude and distance travelled as they zoom down the slopes

• The goggles can also connect to an iPhone or Android phone or tablet, transmitting incoming calls to an earpiece

• The GPS integration can accurately measure how fast you are moving down the slope

• Review your performance stats, like max speed, total vert and max air, in detail, run by run or for the whole day

• Total vert and max air, in detail, run by run or for the whole day

• See Facebook alerts and reply

• Measure and track the number of jumps and airtime;

• Measure your vertical feet by run, by day and over the course of the season

• View incoming calls and text messages


Nokia Push Snowboarding• Monitoring system for snowboarders

• The idea is to connect a series of sensors (heart rate, pressure on the board and orientation) to a Arduino processor, which then sends via Bluetooth, the acquired data to a Nokia N8, which records the entire performance (including the phone´s GPS path)

• The Nokia N8 GPS measures altitude and speed whilst 4 other sensors send data to the device where the Push Snowboarding app gives 6 readouts: speed, altitude, orientation, foot pressure, airtime and the rush you feel as you ride

• All this through a free application that can be downloaded from the Push Snowboarding web page

Cycling

iBike Newton Recon Jet


iBike Newton

• User Configurable Screens

• Dynamic Power Smoothing

• Automatic Profile Selection

• Simplified Setup and Calibration

• Planned Non-Obsolescence


Recon Jet• 9-Axis sensors

• 3D accelerometer

• 3D gyroscope

• 3D magnetometer

• Pressure sensor

• Altimeter & barometer application

• Ambient temperature sensor

• Optical touch sensor for UI control

• Works in all weather conditions, and with gloves on

• Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11a/b/g/n)

• Bluetooth 4.0 (Bluetooth Smart)

• GPS

• HD camera

• Integrated speaker and microphone

Tennis & Baseball

Zepp Tennis and Baseball

Zepp Tennis and Baseball

Zepp Tennis and Baseball• Capture and view your swing in 3D

• Analyze your swing data

• Set swing goals and track improvements

• Watch swing videos of each pro

• Analyze pro swing data

• Record your swing video

• Compare your 3D swing to the pros

• Compare pro swings in 3D and video

• Access training and pro analysis videos

• Compare your swing video to the prosCapture and view your swing in 3D

Fitness

Athos gear

Athos gear

Athos gear• EMG sensors to measure muscles activity: 14 sensors

on the shirt and 8 on the shorts

• 2 Heart rate sensors on the shirt and 4 on the shorts

• 2 Breathing sensors

• EMG (electromyography) is a science used at top sports performance institutes

• EMG Detects: muscle effort, muscle target zones, building, toning, under training vs over training, muscle fatigue

• Heart Rate and Breathing Patterns: heart rate, heart rate variability and recovery rates are all great indicators of overall physical health

• Proper breathing patterns are a crucial component of effective workouts

Kayak

Vaaka Cadence

Vaaka Cadence

Vaaka Cadence• Vaaká sensors are now being used by athletes and coaches around

the globe to extend the boundaries of sporting performance. Boat speed is a product of stroke rate and distance per stroke. Use real time cadence feedback to structure your training sessions and see your performance improve

• Vaaká cadence sensors send wireless stroke rate data to ANT+ compatible GPS training devices. Athletes can see their stroke rate data in real time while training on the water. Post training analysis software can be used to review your cadence data or upload your training files into the Vaaká Analytics software

• Vaaká cadence sensors are lightweight, robust and fully waterproof, tested to 3m for 24 hours. They easily attach to paddles or oars and sophisticated power saving software means that even with daily use you will only need to change the battery every 2-3 years

Boxing

Reebok Checklight

Reebok Checklight

Reebok Checklight

• Consistent, reliable and actionable impact data

• Sensors that are directly coupled to the head to reflect direct accelerations that the head, not a helmet or chin strap, experiences

• Easy to use and comfortable to wear

• Can be worn with or without a helmet and in multiple activities

• Logs the total number of impacts recorded

Basketball

94Fifty

94Fifty

94Fifty• Instant results communicated to your device in

milliseconds on every shot and dribble

• Adaptive Workouts

• The app adjusts as you improve and increases skill difficulty from playground up to pro level

• Head to Head Competition

• Automated, real-time scoring and leaderboards determine the winner for up to 5 players

• Improvement History

• Track daily and all-time bests. Sets goals for more than 50 drills and competitions

• Audio and Visual Feedback

• Get realtime audio and visual feedback to correct flaws

Soccer

adidas miCoach

adidas miCoach

adidas miCoach• Voice Coach live

• Listen to your favorite music while you are guided to your workout

• Effective cardio workout based on heart rate or pace, easy to understand and follow

• More than 400 movements led to a full body workout

• Tools comprehensive analysis of training

• Learn to examine the smallest details of your training as a professional coach

• Measuring performance in the game

• Measure and analyze your performance on the field to focus where it is most important

• Tips and Tricks: Learn more about training, recovery, nutrition and more by elite coaches and ambassadors of Adidas

So, what’s next?

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