KinemaTIx, a wearable medical technology company from Portugal, recently raised $2.15 million (2 million euros) from existing investor Portugal Ventures. Currently, Portugal Ventures has invested US$9.66 million (€9 million) in the company.
Founded in 2009, KinemaTIx specializes in extracting detailed data from human movements. The company is headquartered in Porto, Portugal and has offices in Austin and Texas. KinemaTIx's first product, Movinsense, allows remote monitoring of chronic patient activities such as stroke and arthritis patients. “The patient information received by medical staff is usually incomplete, but medical decisions must be made on top of this information. This device can monitor the activities of 1,000 patients at the same time.†After that, the company developed Walkinsense, which is a A gait tracking device placed in the shoe measures the step size and dynamic pressure from 8 points on the foot.
Last month, KinemaTIx released a new product called "Tune", a sports tracker designed for runners. The shape is a pair of extremely thin insoles with built-in motion sensors that measure running. Each of these actions can be seen on the app associated with the motion tracker. The data recorded by the sensor is divided into two types: one is the data of the foot itself, such as the time to maintain a certain posture, the dynamic situation, the stride, the symmetry of the action, etc.; the other is the data obtained by GPS, such as The rhythm and speed of running.
Tune's insole tracker, multi-data analysis app
Tune has several major features:
1. Simultaneously record the movement of your feet from the beginning of the exercise.
2. After the run is completed, an analysis will be performed to show how the user has changed during the entire run and compared with the previous run.
3. Customized training programs for runners. Training exercises and trained muscles are of course also set to improve running skills. The Tune APP even sets detailed action analysis like some fitness software.
4. Measure the degree of body symmetry during running and assess the likelihood of injury.
From the professional and detailed features of the Tune product, you can get a glimpse of Kinematix's obsession with refined motion measurement. The company has expertise in studying human motion and collecting athletic data, and its data analysis capabilities are strong. Last month, Tune began selling on Amazon and Kinematix's official website to North American and European countries for $200 or €200.
If Tune's wearable technology does get accurate motion data as it says, it does have a lot of potential to help reduce damage during exercise. It is very common for runners to be injured. Excessive training, inadequate warm-up before running, etc. can cause injuries; but the wrong posture and method in running has always been the primary factor of injury, if you find your problem through Tune APP and Correction is completely avoidable.
In addition, Tune's coaching platform will be open at the end of this year. Since then, coaches don't have to visit the site every time to guide athletes' training. Instead, they use the parameters provided by the APP to point out what they should do. For some individual runners, Tune APP also sells and pays. Personal education services provide them with the opportunity to receive professional guidance.
CEO Paulo dos Santos said that their reason for studying footsteps is that the foot is the only part of the body that touches the earth, and you can get a lot of information by analyzing the activities of the footsteps. He said that in the fine field of studying the daily movement of the feet, they are probably the best companies in the world.
Paulo dos Santos, founder and CEO of Kinematix
“The wearables industry is at a critical juncture – people need meaningful and easy-to-understand data to provide them with a guide to action. That's what we want to do at Kinematix,†Dos Santos said in a statement. “Tune's motion tracker sets several motion measurement parameters that are useful to every private fitness user and can use data to guide people's personalized fitness programs.â€
“Kinematix originated in Portugal but was pushed to the international stage for its disruptive innovation capabilities,†said Celso Guedes de Carvalho, CEO of the investor Portugal Ventures, who gave Kinematix a high rating. “Consumer technology products are a difficult market to break into, but we believe that Kinematix's Tune products have the ability to change the way users interact with wearables – it's not just a brand new cool device, it's also long-term effective Improve people's health."
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