How IoT could let you better understand your workout data
With the increasing popularity of wearables, like Fitbit trackers and Apple Watches, people are starting to understand their fitness levels much better. By wearing Apple Watches, for instance, we can figure out our average heart rate while exercising; by wearing smart sport jackets, we can tell if our motion tails are correct — frequent use of wearables will result in rich personal database.
But to analyze the data from wearables, the concern should not be on how much data is collected, but rather, what connections can be drawn between different data sets; for example, how do the data collected from your smart watch and the data from your smart jacket relate? Most of the big names in the wearables industry either lack fair data analyzing platforms or are incompatible with other companies’ databases, which makes useful and accurate data analysis very difficult.
Consumers now have a solution to their problems. Early this year,Lumo BodyTech, a fitness-related smart device company, launched their fitness data analyzing platform Lumo Motion Science Platform. By combining advanced algorithms, this platform can not only perfectly support their own hardware devices, but can also work with data sets collected by third-party devices. By offering API interfaces and SDK, Lumo BodyTech makes it easy for people to join the platform, helping fitness lovers understand and regulate their own fitness data, and thus preventing unnecessary damages during exercise.
According to a survey by Gartner, Inc., the abandonment rate of wearables is 30 percent. Immediately after buying our new wearable devices, we feel excited to get our fitness data so we can learn to exercise better, but that data is essentially useless without a platform with which to analyze the data.
The Lumo Motion Science Platform is that platform. According to their official website, the platform offers access to unique algorithm models that can track a myriad of human movements and provide a wide spectrum of biomechanical insights relevant to various industrial applications and products.
