Wearables

My colleagues and I were in a nondescript office building 1000 meters from Washington Reagan Airport. We were invited by a third party to share our work on a sweat content and sweat rate analysis algorithm. This was early 2000s and the ‘arms race’ to deliver a consumer wearable sensor was in infancy.

Fourteen (14) months later at our Indiana Hq we engaged SEP (www.sep.com) to engineer the proprietary application. This project was ahead of the curve and gained lots of eyeballs from the tech sector. It was my introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT) and my mental scope widened exponentially to the possibilities of biometrics, sensors and our common name ‘wearables’.

At Butler University and my effort to enrich the student-athlete (SA) experience I focus on how we can impact the development of the student-athlete. Parcel to this work is observing, communicating, listening and understanding the SA in their lifestyle. Wearables is a significant part of their daily lives.

I am obtaining information from the SAs via survey as to their utilization and brand of wearable.

59% of respondents have a wearable device

The future work is in development of a common language of utilization across Oura, Whoop, Apple, Garmin, etc. to engage the SA and assist them in gaining optimization of their device. This is the hard work. Obtaining personnel to engineer the data, analyze meaningful data and using the wearable as an impactful high performance tool.