The hot sportswear products have made the health and sports fields once again become the focus of attention of technology giants. New fields and markets mean new profit growth points. Never mind that products become immature, they must catch up with the trend, and when the market is hot, there will be a share of profits. The sports health monitoring function added to the iPhone 6 and iWatch (in fact, Apple Watch, iWatch for short) once again pushed the topic to the cusp. Apple iWatch Sports and Health promoted a large number of riding sports videos. What new things did the iPhone 6 and iWatch bring to the ride?
In retrospect, Apple was also one of the pioneers in the field of health sports. As early as iPod time, Apple introduced the Nike+iPod Sports Kit. However, due to the limited hardware of the iPod itself, it was necessary to place a separate Nike+ accessory in the running shoe to achieve motion monitoring. , And later mobile phone built-in sensor maturity, so that iPhone can save extra hardware, directly call the phone's internal sensors, as long as the use of nike + running and other motion software can achieve track record and step count function.
Today, with the development of smart phones, most sports software can use the mobile's gravitational acceleration sensor and GPS for motion monitoring. However, because the sensors inside the mobile phone are not specifically developed for sports, these softwares appear to be powerful but they are generally There is a phenomenon of high power consumption and inaccurate monitoring results, resulting in greatly reduced availability.
In 2013, Apple introduced the M7 dynamic co-processor in the iPhone 5s, which is mainly used to identify the user's action status. The use of a co-processor can greatly reduce the power consumption of the mobile phone and enable long-term exercise monitoring. In the iPhone 6 released this year, Apple upgraded the coprocessor. The important function of the new M8 coprocessor is the ability to detect the difference between running and riding.
Previously, Nike’s wristband products were also upgraded to the second generation to increase the detection of cycling. As a result, when using some software to perform exercise statistics, there would be no accumulation of 10km and 200m of running. A lot of exercise.
In addition, iPhone6 ​​also added a pressure sensor that can measure the user's altitude, and the measurement results are extremely accurate. Previously, a large number of riding softwares will display real-time altitudes based on GPS data, and generate elevation maps of the riding trajectories after the end of the ride, and then calculate the cumulative elevation and declining altitude in the ride.
However, due to GPS data error fluctuation is too large, making most of the time generated elevation data maps are like up and down shaking electrocardiogram, and previously only a few mobile phone built-in pressure sensor (such as Samsung S5), now the iPhone introduces pressure sensor, you can certainly Greatly improve the accuracy of the relevant riding software display altitude information, we can finally get a smooth curve of elevation elevation map.
Before this, Apple's promos often appear in the lens of cyclists, but most of them are used for scene display. Now the launch of iWatch makes the cycling sport one of the protagonists in the promo. Wearable devices that are in real-time contact with the human body are most conducive to exercise monitoring. iWatch also devotes itself to exercise monitoring.
Regarding sports monitoring, Apple has preset three functions of "Seated Reminder", "Sports Testing" and "Fitness Training" in iWatch. We can clearly see the "fitness training" in the above usage scenarios appearing in the promotion video. "Cycling" campaign options, after the sport, we can see the mileage, time and consumption of calories. According to the introduction in the promo, iWatch can call the GPS of the iPhone to obtain mileage data. The close linkage with various functions of the iPhone is one of the characteristics of iWatch.
Another exciting feature for professional riders is iWatch's built-in heart rate sensor. As an important reference data for cycling training, heart rate monitoring can only be achieved through professional heart rate. With the related riding training software on the iPhone, riding enthusiasts have another reason to choose iWatch.
Of course, from the videos shown at this stage, Apple’s official health monitoring campaigns only implement relatively simple functions, but with a strong hardware foundation, we believe that soon we can see that third-party developers produce products. Various applications, and iPhone and iWatch turned professional training equipment is no longer far away.
