Smart Sneakers Are Hot And Durable. Or Endurance Is A Problem.

Sports monitoring equipment has been popularized to a certain extent. Almost every mobile phone equipped with acceleration sensor and fitness software can be realized.

Of course, there are many more professional sports bracelets, watches, heart rhythm monitoring bands and even more.

It can monitor the intensity and frequency of our exercise.

So, why not a pair of sneakers?

In fact, as early as 2012, Nike released related products, integrated sensors on Sports soles and linked data pmission with Nike+ applications.

However, this concept has not really been recognized by the market, and intelligent sports shoes are also fading out of the market.

In recent years, including Adidas, Garmin and Polar have introduced accessories installed on sports shoes, which seems to indicate a revival of wearable products on the feet.

Of course, intelligent sneakers are also faced with many problems that need to be solved.

Product form still needs improvement

Recently, Lenovo has released a new concept of smart running shoes, which integrates a large number of sensors. It can monitor user movement data and pmit to mobile phones in real time. Even LED display is integrated on the vamp, which can show users' health and mood at any time.

GPS Smartsole has introduced intelligent insoles and built-in GPS chips, which can track the location of the elderly and children at any time and prevent them from losing. The Lechal company has launched the smart shoe soles.

Insole, focus on new health monitoring experience.

It sounds that intelligent sports shoes are a viable solution to sports monitoring. Why did sports brands and manufacturers not enter the market of intelligent sports shoes? The reason is similar to that of smart clothing.

First of all, sports shoes as a very popular daily necessities, in fact, wear must meet the needs of users, and the smart sneakers integrated with a large number of sensors are faced with the challenge of sensor size and durability. After all, no user wants to buy a so-called "intelligent running shoes" whose life span is only one month.

Second, battery life is also an unsolved problem. Charging shoes everyday sounds ridiculous.

Before the above problems are solved, intelligent sports shoes,

It may not be able to really enter the mainstream market.

But it is clear that the final form of wearable devices will be hand clothes rather than a bracelet or an external device that forces people to accept, but they still need time to wait for the perfection of basic technology.