You can improve only what you measure
The Selfloops Android application has a new look, a better looking design with improved usability. In the new version is also possible to analyze the activities directly from the application. And if you want the full analysis, just log to the website.
We have just introduced the possibility to highlight and zoom certain areas of the activity graphs in order to allow a finer level of analysis. You can visualize the interval data graphically, and have the averages and max of that part in a table.
This functionality is quite advanced and is entirely implemented in the browser, no need to have a version for a Windows PC, Linux or a Mac. You just need a computer with the browser and you can analyze your data or if you are a coach, the athletes’s data, anywhere and anytime.
This is a feature that can be found in advanced desktop performance analysis software. Since it requires some computing power, at the moment we do not enable it on tablets or smartphones. However, all the other functionalities on Selfloops are completely available on any platform and devices, tablets and smartphones included.
Give it a try.
We have been testing our telemetry and performance analysis platform with the Italian women national cycling team in the Montichiari velodrome. In a velodrome is especially important to have real-time information of cyclists and analyze how their bike power (heart rate and cadence) vary during the trainings. Real-time feedback can be given and progresses follow.
We are constantly improving our services to the fit needs and requirements of athletes and people that like to measure and analyze their activities. A special thank to Edoardo Salvoldi, coach of the women national team.
Our Android applications have been officially certified by the ANT Alliance. The certification process makes sure the applications conform to the standard and therefore they are able to communicate with the many accessories in the ANT+™ ecosystem. The certification guarantees that if you use our applications you can safely and accurately have your ANT+ accessories working.
Another milestone for Selfloops!
You can find our apps in the thisisant website product directory listing together with the accessories and sensors that are compatible with:
ANT+ is a trademark of Dynastream Innovations
Today we are happy to announce the launch of the Selfloops Group Fitness app in the Android Play Store.
The Selfloops Group Fitness application allows real-time group monitoring of heart rate sensors and cardio training . The information appears in the smartphone/tablet display, but it can be projected in a external larger screen if the device has a video output port (e.g. a HDMI port as some Android tablets)
The scope of the app is to make people aware of their fitness performance and to train more effectively when real-time intensity feedback is given. Furthermore, with this app coaches can monitor their class and train people according to their fitness intensity zones.
The number of contemporaneous heart rate sensors supported theoretically could go up to 50 as this is the limit of the ANT+™ standard (the position and the processing power of the receiver may negatively affect this number).
The ANT+ standard is used by Garmin and many others. Therefore, to use the application, your smart phone or tablet must support ANT+. If your smartphone does not natively support ANT+, you can add external accessories to enable it, e.g. our ANT+ accessory (for Android 2.3.4 and higher) or the Garmin USB ANT stick with a USB OTG cable (for Android 3.0 and higher).
Our forthcoming Selfloops Accessory enables ANT+ in Android:
http://www.selfloops.com/products/accessories.html
a list of ANT+ capable smartphones and other external solutions are described here:
http://www.thisisant.com/business/opportunities/mobile/
HOW IT WORKS
At the start of the session the application will gather data from sensors in proximity.
If the user is registered, a square will pop-up with her name, otherwise she will appear as an anonymous user. You can edit the anonymous user and register her for a future automatic identification. You can also manually register users, if you know the heart rate monitor device number.
IMPORTANT
Only users with heart rate monitors in proximity will be shown during a session.
In Android devices that natively support ANT+ you have to DISABLE the WiFi for this application to work. The two radio protocols share the same antenna in these devices and ANT+ cannot work continuously.
