Fully instrumented sock integrates smart fabrics sensors to provide fitness data
This includes smart socks with smart fabrics sensors, an electronic anklet for communicating the data with the user’s mobile phone, and a virtual coach mobile app.
The sock shaped Sensoria device is able to tracks everything from foot landing and stride cadence to activity level and altitude gain. The specially chemically-treated fabric sensors are able to measure pressure points for a detailed analysis of the foot’s contact with the sole.
With these socks on, every time you walk, run and exercise you are generating valuable data that can be processed to produce meaningful views of your activity and the way you use your whole body (in this instance, the way you articulate your feet onto the ground). The sensor filled sock is comfortable, washable and designed for runners. The smart fabrics sensors send pressure data to the Sensoria Anklet. The Sensoria Anklet uploads data wirelessly either via computer or through a smartphone. The data is then added to a dashboard for either retrospective analysis or instant coaching.
After over two years of research and development the Heapsylon Sensoria wearable devices are now at prototype stage, with appropriate funding, the devices could be commercialized in 2014 for about $150.
Visit Heapsylon at www.heapsylon.com
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