Intro of me
Quantifying your fitness – focused on devices with APIs
Talk about integration points, opportunities, and where the industry lags
Connecting things - used to be wires/electricians/very hard
Adding/changing things: just as expensive as the first one
Philips Hue - SkyMall/Sharper Image (remember the slow wake up lights, the stock market mood lamp?)
One bulb to turn different colors based on the stock market
another to reflect the quantity of tweets about your company
Alarm for waking with light - could be improved…
A zillion
Most popular
APIs and integrations
Example integrations you can use with newer ones
Fitbit, Body Media, Jawbone, Withings, Basis, Pebble
Fitbit - Their API is fantastic and they provide strong developer support.
Limited biometrics (accellerometer) but great syncing (passive) via smart phone or bluetooth dongle
Many different types (force was recalled)
Tell it you’re sleeping
Fitbit dashboard
Steps, calories, some sleep data
Community, friends, badges, fun stuff
Seriously? That’s not the kind of dancing I do.
Not crowd sourced. If I add zumba you have to too.
Do you know how many calories you burn with every activity? Do you want to input it manually?
Yeah.
MyFitnessPal has a much better crowdsourced database of foods. Drawbacks
Too many entries for the same thing
Integration at the calories/day thing (protein, produce)
Awkward
Itchy
Must remove from strap to charge
5,000 data points per minute (most not exposed via API)
API reduced in scope when combined with Jawbone to match Jawbone’s input data
Auto sleep detection
Used to be the only device approved for FDA trials, but not certain that Jawbone has that as a goal
Charges via headphone port
No website for input
API too limited to make good website (graphs, charts)
Smartphone interface
Tell it you’re sleeping
The Withings pulse is an ok tracker
Manual heart rate
Accurate for steps
Cute but not overly useful display
API is decent for weight, not so great for other measurements. Very strange status codes in the response though. They don’t use HTTP status codes.
The scale is an excellent tool to use for overall tracking of weight and fat percentage
Integrations are cool - Runkeeper, Myfitnesspal, Fitbit. Easy API to integrate, uses OAuth.
pulse
Also have BP monitor, baby monitor and coming soon a pretty stylish watch/activity tracker
weight graph
No API yet (but purchased by Intel who has Mashery
Exception in API rules because it is awesome in ways that others aren’t
Resting heart rate
Amazing charts and graphs
Totally ambient information
Encourages and tracks new habits based on your behavior
Not so much an API as SDK
Write code in C
… but it’s got an accelerometer
If all you want is an accelerometer that can have apps...
Use your iPhone
Sucks battery like no tomorrow
Excellent ambient tracker - no effort by the user (which will kill your battery but is still cool)
Very basic but ok api
Apple HealthKit - should work even with apps that don’t have a direct API, as it will enable developers to create integrations into it themselves.
Fitbit - Their API is fantastic and they provide strong developer support. Their inputs beyond steps aren’t very strong, however - food input is pretty limited, activities are quite odd.
RunKeeper HealthGraph - a great idea. Holds a ton of biometric information, much more than run keeper itself offers, including food, sugar levels, heart rate. But it hasn’t gotten much traction.
Immature industry
Recent trends disappointing
Need much better integration/nutrition
Biometric sensors need improvement/excellent APIs
Think about Big Data implications, even with a single user