InvenSense® Announces Sensor-Based SaaS Fitness Tracking Platform for Mobile and Wearable Application Developers
November 17 2015 - 4:16PM
Business Wire
Coursa Sports Employs Sensor Enhanced
Positioning and GNSS Duty-Cycling to Provide More Accurate Speed,
Distance and Route Tracking at Reduced Power Consumption
InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN), a leading provider of MEMS sensor
platform solutions, announced Coursa Sports, a cloud-based Software
as a Service (SaaS) fitness tracking platform for smartphone and
smartwatch health and fitness applications. The platform is
designed to provide more accurate and always available speed,
distance, and route tracking and at least a 3X improvement in
relative elevation reporting for walking, hiking and running at up
to 50% reduced power consumption. Coursa Sports is comprised of an
SDK for integration into a mobile application and a cloud server.
Mobile and wearable application developers can download the Coursa
Sports SDK today from www.coursasports.com.
As use of mobile fitness applications increases, so does the
expectation of battery efficiency and accuracy enabling users to
get full credit for their exercise sessions. Most fitness apps use
GNSS (such as GPS) to track the speed, distance and route of
activity. However, on forest running trails or in deep urban canyon
environments, GNSS can be inaccurate or unavailable, resulting in
lost or inaccurate fitness data.
The Coursa Sports SDK uses advanced algorithms that take sensor
data from the mobile device gyroscope, accelerometer, and
barometric pressure sensor to generate an inertial tracking data
flow that is combined with GNSS data. The addition of the inertial
tracking system, together with GNSS, improves customer experience
by increasing the continuity and accuracy of the fitness data when
GNSS signals are weak or unavailable.
Coursa Sports improves mobile device battery life by up to 50%
during workouts by frequently turning GNSS off (duty-cycling).
During duty-cycling, the lower power sensors are used to track
fitness data at the same accuracy as GNSS. This feature extends
battery life during fitness tracking, and enables developers to
migrate their smartphone apps to smartwatch devices, where smaller
batteries and the high power consumption of GNSS previously
prohibited fitness tracking use cases.
“InvenSense has made significant investments in human context
and location tracking algorithm development to serve our OEM
customers,” said Eitan Medina, vice president marketing and product
management, InvenSense. “Now, for the first time, we are enabling
application developers to take advantage of these technology
advances in their apps. Coursa Sports is the first commercially
available SDK and SaaS platform designed to help fitness and health
application developers provide more accurate and reliable fitness
metrics to their customers through the use of MEMS inertial sensor
data.”
The Coursa Sports SDK supports iOS, Android and Android Wear
platforms. For additional information, please visit
www.coursasports.com or contact InvenSense Sales at
sales@invensense.com.
About InvenSense
InvenSense, Inc. (NYSE: INVN) is the world’s leading provider of
MEMS sensor platforms. The company’s patented InvenSense
Fabrication Platform and MotionFusion® technology address the
emerging needs of many mass-market consumer applications via
improved performance, accuracy, and intuitive motion-, gesture- and
sound-based interfaces. InvenSense technology can be found in
Mobile, Wearables, Smart Home, Industrial, and Automotive products.
InvenSense is headquartered in San Jose, California and has offices
in Boston, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, France, Canada, Slovakia
and Italy. More information can be found at www.invensense.com or
follow us on Twitter at @InvenSense.
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Everything, FireFly, UltraPrint, MotionTracking, MotionProcessing,
MotionProcessor, MotionFusion, MotionApps, InvenSenseTV, Coursa,
Coursa Sports, DMP, AAR, and the InvenSense logo are trademarks of
InvenSense, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks
of the respective companies with which they are associated.
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