Nike is opening its NikeFuel platform to third party developers today

Absrtact: Nike today opened its NikeFuel platform to Third-party developers and announced the establishment of Fuel Lab in San Francisco. NikeFuel is a set of algorithms developed by Nike in collaboration with Arizona, State State University, which simply means Nike devices are known by sensors

Nike today opened its NikeFuel platform to Third-party developers and announced the establishment of Fuel Lab in San Francisco. NikeFuel is Nike and the United States Arizona, State State University developed a set of algorithms, simple Nike device through the sensor to know the user's current motion mode and the data with the control group in the database pairing, according to the preset movement mode of "oxygen consumption" to give a whole Nike platform Universal Fuel Points。

Because no matter what kind of exercise, the user sees the final result will be a unified, comparable score, many people questioned the accuracy of the algorithm, but also is the universality of the Fuel system so that Nike can build a current most dynamic wear equipment community one. Now, with the establishment of Fuel Lab, Nike wants more third-party developers to join the NikeFuel platform to build Nike Fuel Band and Nike Sportwatch, and other devices that are common to third-party software, Let the data between these software seamless synchronization conversion and get a unified Fuel score.

If it succeeds in expanding the platform's reach, Nike hopes to create a "common standard" for wearable devices in motion tracking. For example, MyFitnessPal and Runkeeper are Nike's existing partners, which are designed to help users control the system while the latter is similar to Nike Runing's running companion software. If the above statement succeeds, two applications of data will be converted to the unified Fuel points, allowing users to compare their motion effects across applications.

The task of Fuel Lab is to help developers integrate their applications with the Niekfuel system. This project was directly derived from last year's Nike Acceleratorlink text project, in which Nike provided various guidance to 10 shortlisted companies, including technology development, brand operations, corporate governance and financing. The success of the project spawned the establishment of Fuel Lab.

As a sports brand, Nike is undoubtedly one of the most technologically-smelling players in the same company. In addition to ensuring core competitiveness through continuous development of new materials and technology such as shock mitigation technologies, Nike partnered with Apple in 2006 to launch Nike Running applications and related accessories, which later became the preferred companion device for many running enthusiasts. In recent years, with the rise of wearable equipment, Nike product line has also grown rapidly, the 2012 Nike's first intelligent sports hand ring Nike Fuel Band officially listed, followed by Nike basketball, Nike training, Nike Kinect A series of applications training and Nike move around the theme of sports life.