There’s no doubt that wearables in sports and fitness have a bright future ahead. This is made evident by some of the biggest apparel brands partnering with notable tech giants. Most recently, Under Armour partnered with both HTC and IBM Watson to expand their digital fitness footprint. At CES this year, New Balance announced a partnership with Intel, Google and others to bolster their newly formed New Balance Digital Sport division.
However, as much as there is excitement around this exploding field, there is an equal amount of concern relating to the accuracy of the data being collected from the wearables themselves.
On May 4, from 2-3 PM eastern, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association (SFIA) will present a thought leadership webinar with Exponent to explore the reliability of this data. Exponent, a leading engineering and scientific consultancy to the sports and fitness industry, performs in-depth, independent scientific research, testing and regulatory support to provide rapid solutions to their clients.
Who: SFIA and Exponent
What: Reliability of Wearable Data Webinar
When: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern
This webinar will feature a qualified team of consultants from Exponent – Principal Engineers Ray Huang, Richard Klopp and Brad McGoran, who will share their knowledge and experience related to product and data reliability, risk analysis and failure prevention.
“The wearables industry is young and vibrant – and with youth comes the opportunity to learn from more mature industries. Exponent has witnessed first-hand the growing pains of the other related industries including consumer electronics, medical devices, and security technology. We hope that by sharing the knowledge of the technical pitfalls learned from working with these other high-growth industries we can assist the wearables marketplace,” said Richard W. Klopp, Principal Engineer, Exponent.
As a whole, wearable data originates at the sensors. In practical terms, wearable data reliability also originates at sensors and its associated hardware and electronics.
This team of experts will address wearable sensor data reliability in light of sensor design choices, ageing, calibration and consistency checks. They will also discuss how sensor data reliability can be increased at the design and prototyping stage through effective testing and will present ways to secure the data and confirm its authenticity using well known cryptographic and authentication methods.
SFIA and SportTechie have teamed up to offer SportTechie readers a discounted registration rate of $199 to hear from experts on best practices regarding wearable technology. To register, simply use the code SportTechieDiscount while visiting this link.