Digitalizing sports: Expanding Sports Analytics From Professional Athletes To All Performance Levels (Wearable USA 2017)

Numerous high end devices and services are offered to tracking professional athletes, and a plethora of fitness trackers and smart watches are measuring daily activity of casual exercisers. However, a large amount of active sports participants don't have useful digital tools to track their performance and to optimize their training. The presentation discusses how motion measurement will solve various previously unmet needs in sports monitoring and how open innovation and easy development environment will help offering new insights to all sports in the world and to participants at all performance levels. The presentation includes case examples of motion measurement in different sports.

Motion measurement will solve various unmet needs in sports monitoring, and open innovation and will help offering new insights to all sports in the world and to participants at all performance levels. The presentation suggests how this can be done and includes case examples of motion measurement in different sports.

Terho Lahtinen has over 25 years of experience of sports wearables as an athlete and, since 2000, in various product and business related roles at Suunto including new product concepting, consumer experience and insights collection. Currently in Suunto Emerging Business Team, he is driving Movesense, an open development platform for motion sensing solutions.

Suunto is a Finnish manufacturer of world renowned sports watches, dive computers and precision instruments for the toughest conditions. Its new initiative, Movesense, is an open development environment for motion tracking and other sensor solutions and applications for and beyond sports. It makes the company's expertise available to all partners.