Create smarter devices for sport and fitness, analyze performance, and track results
The Internet of Things is changing the way we exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Activity trackers and fitness applications are becoming our personal coaches, helping us with both instruction and motivation. Smart sportswear allows us to transcribe body data into training advice, and smart sports equipment allows us to measure our performance and report it to our smartphones.
The Kaa IoT Platform delivers all these capabilities for smart sport & fitness products vendors as production-ready features. With Kaa, you can automatically collect data from virtually any sensors, fitness trackers, or smart sports gear, then visualize and analyze it through a customizable web dashboard.
Kaa features a powerful data visualization toolkit that allows you to create personalized dashboards for tracking specific training parameters and understanding the impact of different training routines over time. You can also visualize data from multiple devices at once, as well as set up rules for alerts and notifications.
Gyms and sport venue businesses can use Kaa to integrate their device and customer data in order to better run and analyze campaigns, deliver personalized services, and implement efficient asset management and predictive maintenance solutions.
Fitness wearables and sports gear vendors can utilize Kaa as a part of their go-to-market strategy and enhance their products with highly flexible device management capabilities. This will enable them to easily manage over-the-air software updates, analyze products’ global distribution and optimize distribution chains, and run A/B tests on specific product or user groups. IoT functionality provided by Kaa will also help vendors to have great visibility into their products’ performance and usability so that they can adjust their product development priorities accordingly.
IoT connectivity and analytics are also essential for easy integration between different devices and systems. For example, a smart sports gear vendor can use Kaa to create a complex training and performance analytics solution for athletes by integrating and analyzing data coming from multiple sports and fitness devices. For that, Kaa also provides customizable IoT dashboards, which can be configured to display various data in the needed graphical format, and an advanced analytics engine, which includes charts, rule-based analytics, and smart alerts.
Here’s what vendors of sports wearables, smart products, and equipment can do with Kaa:
- Connect devices to the cloud and collect their data
- Analyze device performance, location, user interactions, etc.
- Manage device lifecycle, including maintenance and afterservice
- Run and manage over-the-air software updates
- Run A/B tests, track device performance in the field
- Create custom dashboards to display diverse device data
- Create custom solutions that integrate multiple devices
- Analyze real-time and historical device data
- Set up smart alerts and notifications
Kaa is a perfect IoT platform for enabling asset management capabilities for companies managing sport & fitness facilities, sport arenas, and stadiums. Connecting thousands of devices within a modern IoT solution can be a huge challenge without a strong foundation, which only an IoT platform can provide. With Kaa, you can have all popular IoT features out of the box as well as very flexible IoT dashboard configuration options, thus enabling you to create a solution of virtually any complexity and scale.
In Kaa, we make a specific emphasis on streamlined user experience, from adding the first device to building complex dashboards and running data analytics. For every aspect of your device lifecycle, Kaa offers graphical components that help you achieve your goals while eliminating any coding unless absolutely necessary. As a result, Kaa can be used by people with no prior experience in IoT or even software engineering. At the same time, engineers can take advantage of more advanced Kaa capabilities to create highly customized solutions for their needs.
Overall, the following solutions for asset management in sport & fitness can be implemented by using Kaa:
- Manage diverse smart devices via a single UI
- Create unique dashboards for different types of devices
- Collect device performance, inventory, usage and other data
- Exchange data between devices
- Assign role-based access rights that reflect your company’s workflows
One great opportunity enabled by IoT is using smart devices to understand the quality of customers experiences while using your products and services. This is achieved by collecting diverse data at every possible customer touchpoint and analyzing that data over time. For example, sports gear vendors can track how customers use their products to improve their ergonomics, digital UI, or physical characteristics. Product usage data can be also an excellent source of knowledge for testing new products before investing into full-scale go-to-market activities, such as marketing campaigns, trade shows, and distribution networks.
In a similar manner, gyms and other sports facilities can use IoT-enabled devices to understand training patterns of their visitors, their most popular machines and gear, popular fitness beverages, etc. in order to improve their customers’ satisfaction and ensure higher retention rates. You could also create branded mobile applications to provide users with access to their training data collected by smart devices in the gym, unlock personalized fitness programs, track physical performance benchmarks and progress over time, and tap into professional nutrition advice.
The following IoT analytics solutions for sports and fitness companies can be built in Kaa:
- Track visitor location data via smart keys or fitness bands, analyze patterns
- Analyze equipment and gear usage data
- Connect user fitness tracking devices to your Kaa-powered IoT analytics
- Feed user physical training data into a mobile application or other systems
- Create rich physical training analytics dashboards