Five New Consumer Wearable Products Powered by Movesense to be Showcased at CES 2019

New devices leverage sensors and motion-sensing technology that
allowed teams to rapidly create and launch new products for athletes,
executives, and the elderly

VANTAA, Finland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Five companies launching new wearable devices that provide more
targeted, accurate, and consistent data for consumers tracking health,
athletic performance, stress, and more will exhibit in one place at the
International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019, held from January
8-11, 2019. The products rely on Movesense’s
motion sensing technology and sensor platform to improve athletic
training, avoid costly medical interventions in elderly patients, and
manage stress for people in demanding occupations. These new devices
will be on display at the Movesense-Suunto booth, #44537.

“We were one of nine companies selected to take part in 1st and Future,
a sports tech pitch contest sponsored by the NFL,” said David Troup,
founder of Konect Sports. “We went from that pitch to a product in 10
months. While developing our first product, Konect Speed Training, we
conceived of a second product, the Konect Speed Pro, which we developed
in seven weeks. We could not have done this without Movesense.”

Suunto started developing Movesense for its own line of smartwatches in
2015, but soon realized that it could accelerate the growth of the
wearables market by making a programmable sensor available. Because its
open development environment is easy to use, early adopters of Movesense
have been able to focus on smaller sports in which there are few
products and other so-called edge cases.

“With Movesense, we get the benefit of tried and tested hardware that
features open source software and is cost-effective,” said Konrad
Antoniuk, founder of Morph Wear. “That has reduced the number of
technical challenges we face in developing a product, and has allowed us
to focus on designing our applications and making the user experience
better.”

The companies that will display their products alongside Movesense in
booth #44537 in the Sands Expo Convention Center at CES include:

• Konect
  Sports, a U.S.-based reaction, speed and agility training system
  that allows coaches and athletes to track and analyze data at an
  extremely granular level. The company has commercialized two products
  that rely on the Movesense platform in just under a year: Konect Speed
  Pro and the new Konect Speed Training. Both products are multi-sensor
  applications that harness data to improve reaction time, agility, and
  speed in athletes at all levels.
• Morph
  Wear, a swimming analytics solution driven by a two-person team
  that discovered Movesense at CES 2018. Morph Wear improves swimming
  workouts and training efficiency by letting swimmers know when they
  are under or over performing based on metrics that measure intensity.
  Early versions of the Morph Wear device have been used by Olympic
  athletes to inform the Morph Wear system and identify several
  data-driven elite performance characteristics.
• W2ND,
  pronounced Second Wind, uses Movesense’s built-in non-medical ECG
  capabilities to calculate a real-time lactate threshold measurement.
  The sensor relies on research that shows how heart rate variability
  correlates to lactate thresholds. W2ND’s intuitive analytics platform
  can be used by elite athletes, weekend warriors, and anyone seeking to
  lose weight to improve endurance and overall fitness. The company
  advanced its timeline for release, discovering Movesense this year
  after trying to develop its own sensor technology.
• ALMA.care,
  a Belgian digital health tech company, uses foot-worn Movesense
  sensors and a wrist band to study subtle changes in people’s data and
  detect signs of health and mobility issues in the elderly. Because
  small issues can be signs of underlying problems that may require
  expensive interventions if left untreated, ALMA.care health & gait
  analysis technology can justify early treatment that is far less
  costly and invasive.
• Overskudd,
  a Norwegian technology firm developing solutions to enhance human
  performance. Products include the Overskudd sensor (Movesense with
  Overskudd HRV library and firmware), Chester and Chester Jr.
  (Connectors for using Movesense with Electrodes) and the Overskudd
  Analysis Server (a cloud platform for performance analysis,
  enhancement and prediction). Clients include individuals,
  corporations, athletes, Special Forces, athletes and research
  institutions worldwide.

Together, the companies will demonstrate how Movesense’s ready-to-use
sensors and open development platform, released just 18 months ago, can
be used to quickly develop wearable technology products that address
novel challenges and applications.

“This past year has shown that developers can achieve amazing things
when we give them the tools they need,” said Terho Lahtinen, Senior
Manager, Future Concepts at Movesense. “With Movesense, entrepreneurs
get the tools they need to solve the problems they are passionate about
– be it in sports, medicine, wellness, occupational safety, and more –
at a fraction of the cost and time.”

For more information on Movesense, please visit movesense.com.

About Movesense

Movesense is an open development environment for motion-sensing
solutions. Developed in Finland by Suunto, its easy and innovative tools
accelerate measuring and sensing applications across sports,
agriculture, manufacturing, health care, and more. Learn more at www.movesense.com/.

Developers interested in incorporating Movesense motion-sensing
technology into their prototypes or current products can order a
software development kit here.

About Suunto

Suunto is a Finnish manufacturer of world renowned sports watches, dive
computers and precision instruments for the toughest conditions. Find
out more about the company and its products at www.suunto.com.

Contacts

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