Technology - Troy Angrignon

Map of Apple Watch fitness apps and data

You have your Apple Watch and/or activity tracker or sportwatch and now you want to know how to connect all those apps that are piling up on your watch and phone. Here is the beginning of a map that shows everything as follows: Heart rate sensors on the left

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Comstock Magazine article on wearables

Comstock’s Magazine in Sacramento has just published an article on 2015 being the year of the wearables. My good friend Sally Edwards and I are quoted in it. Sally is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, professional triathlete, speaker, and technologist. She is one of the pioneers in

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CES 2015 Report on Wearables

At the beginning of January, I attended CES 2015 in Las Vegas to see what patterns were emerging in consumer technology, specifically in the arenas of health, fitness, wellness, and and consumer medical. It’s taken a month or so to digest what I saw and look for the larger

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Wearable tech decision tree

Here it is, the simplest decision tree I can build for choosing your wearable sleep, activity, fitness, or sport tracking device(s). I’ll modify it as I get more inputs. decide what you want to track, sleep or activity? (if both, follow both)if they match, then congrats, you

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OMSignal smart shirts make me doubt the smart clothing market

I ordered my OMSignal shirt from the crowd-funding launch page back in May 2014. 8 months and 50 “exciting updates from the founders” later, I received it. Last week, I tested it on a hard workout at my gym and within about 10 minutes I was ready to call the

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Comparing FitBit SurgeHR and Garmin 920XT

Today I’m comparing the new FitBit Surge HR fitness watch with the Garmin 920 XT sport watch. I ran them through two very different tests so that I could compare the data quality and the user interface presented from both of them. FitBit SurgeHR and Garmin 920XT

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Wearable customer segmentation: Using maturity level for nuanced customer analysis

Customer Maturity Model It’s not really possible to do good, quality market analysis in the wearable space (or perhaps any space) without taking into account both user-type (which really defines the use case) and also something I like to refer to as maturity level. I further refine this

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The best smartwatch or fitness band in Q1 2015

Here is a grid that will help you choose the best smartwatch or fitness band no matter what kind of athlete you are. I’ve included only the best and left the rest off. There are a lot of tools not worth using. These are some, if not all,

Product Review

The Best Heart Rate Strap : Comparing Scosche Rhythm+, Mio Link, 4iiiii Viiiiiva, Wahoo KickrX

I do a ton of sports tech testing. Some days it feels like I’m on a never-ending search to find the best heart rate strap. I’ve tested them all. However, straps are boring to video record so this will just be a text-based blog post. In short, here

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Comparing Sleep Trackers: Jawbone Up24, Basis Peak, S+ by ResMed, Sleeprate, Garmin 920XT, Fitbit

In this video (at the bottom of this post), I compare sleep trackers to see which ones function best. THE CANDIDATES (and their sensors)Jawbone Up24 (3d accelerometer)Basis Peak (continuous heart rate, skin temperature, perspiration, 3d accelerometer)S+ by ResMed (movement as read by the echo-location of low-power signals

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How Apple Watch will create new winners and losers in the wearables ecosystem

Apple released news about their new Apple Watch today and overall I have to say I’m fairly impressed. In the smart watch category, there are a couple of key things that have to be handled in order to secure a large total addressable market and these have been major

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Market Map: Health and Sports Apps and Devices

A first attempt to provide a simplified look at the devices and apps market by looking at the wireless protocols across the X (time) axis and depth / complexity of feature set on the Y axis. Let me know if you think this works…or doesn’t. I’m not convinced

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Building a map of sensors, devices, apps, displays, protocols, agents, and end-points. (phew!)

As many of you know, I’ve been looking a lot lately at the sport tech wearables space. It’s amazing how complicated it is. I was experimenting with a way of modeling it out so that people can see what I mean. Not sure this is the right way

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The traditional GPS sport watch ecosystem is too slow-moving and will be disrupted by the apps market

I’ve been testing old world vs. new world lately in GPS watches vs. applications. It’s interesting to see the generation gaps. In short, the iPhone (mostly the iPhone and not Android because it was further ahead and simpler to code for when using Bluetooth LE – a derivative subset

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Review of the Wearable Technologies Conference July 22/23 2013

The second-ever Wearable Technologies Conference hosted and run by Wearable Technologies AG (link) from Germany, was held here in San Francisco July 22/23. Attendees came from R&D labs, early-stage idea companies, crowd-funded startups, and large electronics manufacturers. It was great to see the energy, enthusiasm, curiosity, and

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A Tale of Five Garmins (310XT, 910XT, FR610, FR620, and Tactix)

Garmin Running Watches/Sports & Fitness Trackers I’m always looking to see what’s happening in the Wearable Technology space at the same time as I’m looking for what I will use day to day for my own training across a number of different sports. I’m hard

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The Density and Complexity of the Quantified Tools Ecosystem is Increasing Rapidly

Here is a first pass at capturing some of the major integration points (and directions) between the various sensors, mobile phone apps, watches, bands, scales, hardware vendor sites, and aggregator sites. This is only a small part of what’s really there. Interesting to see how quickly this is getting

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Fitness Device Comparison: Nike Fuel, Jawbone, Fitbit Flex, Basis B1, Fitbit Force, Misfit Shine, Polar Loop

There are hundreds of reviews out there on the current and upcoming fitness bands. I’ve destroyed and/or lost many of them and have a high bar for what they need to do to be useful. My plan is to keep this table up to date as I test

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I'm in the June/July/August issue of Backbone Magazine talking about cleantech in Canada

Backbone Magazine has just published a great overview of the cleantech sector in Canada that contains quotes from a number of notable people in the space including Kirk Washington (Yaletown Venture Partners), Victoria Smith (BC Hydro), Rick Whittaker (Sustainable Development Technology Canada), Raul Pacheco-Vega (UBC), Helen Goodland (Lighthouse Sustainable Building

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Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast this Friday April 23rd in Vancouver. Learn how to build fast-cycle lean startups.

I’m super excited to be part of the crew (along with Bootup Entrepreneurial Society) bringing the Startup Lessons Learned conference to town via simulcast this Friday April 23rd. For those of you who don’t know, the Lean Startup movement (a derivative of lean manufacturing) was kicked off by

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I'm in this week's Business in Vancouver talking about cloud computing

I’m quoted in this week’s Business in Vancouver, discussing cloud computing, along with my industry colleague Sarah Morton from Backbone Systems (a recent sponsor of the Vancouver Cloud Camp.) Apr 6-12, 2010 edition I’m glad Curt got my favourite line in there, courtesy of

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Vancouver's First Cloudcamp happens on March 13, 2010 in two more days

Vancouver’s First Cloud Camp is in two more days! What will you do at Cloud Camp? You will learn how to take advantage of cloud computing to do things you could not do before, to save money, to be more flexible and agile. You can get your questions

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Two curves: My view on the BC cleantech sector at the beginning of 2010

I was asked recently what I had learned from my informal survey of the local BC cleantech sector. This was my response and I was encouraged to share it more widely. I’d love your own thoughts on the following. Dear (Friend): You asked about my view on the

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British Columbia's Cloud Computing Ecosystem

Techvibes and I released “BC’s Cloud Computing Ecosystem – A Comprehensive List” today. Please leave comments, tell me what I missed, make suggestions, debate my definitions of cloud, or whatever else. More than anything, please come and join the conversation. And if you click through the

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City of Berkeley launches their Climate Action Plan using Vancouver-based Visible Strategies' "See-It". WOW.

Check out the newly launched Climate Action Plan Indicators tool from the City of Berkeley that is based on Vancouver’s own Visible Strategies‘ “See-It” application. It allows all of the stakeholders to have a dashboard that lets them input their goals, and then track their