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up the wearable technology. Rising with the mobile
tech, wearable devices have a closer relationship with
us in daily life. People started to use convenient sensor
devices or mobile app to record daily activities, such as
the total walking steps, the cycling speed, or sleeping
quality, etc. Using the quantization method to record
and give feedbacks, people make changes in their
lives and behaviors. Through it, they are happy about
the achievement which they realize themselves in a
better way. Everyone uses numbers to write a diary.
According to estimates by Gartner, an international
research institute, the industrial value of global
wearable tech devices will reach 10 billion US dollars.
The major applications of wearable devices, apart from
the second monitor of smart phones, also provide
information and messages functions. Sports and leisure
activities and health-managed field are especially
significant applications. NIKE, Adidas and some other
more companies in the traditional sports industry have
already actively invested in the development. Even the
internet tech companies such as Apple and Google
are also acknowledged with this potential market and
put considerable R&D into the sports industry. Their
investments all indicate that this market has great economic
value.
IOT can connect not only people and objects but also
objects and objects via the internet. In the past, wearable
technology mainly refers to the sensor devices worn by
people collecting the physical data and giving feedbacks
through quantization method. With the progressive
sensor technology, quite a few applications are to place
wearable devices inside the sports equipment. Sports shoes
embedded with a uniaxial accelerometer module and
capable of recording physical activities through wireless
transmission technology can be transformed into high
value-added intelligent shoes. The earliest development of
intelligent shoes dates back to 1986 when Puma released
the Puma RS100 computer shoe, a smart running shoe which
recorded walking steps and kept users updated about their
walking steps. Until now, the best two examples are the
series of Nike+ launched in 2006 and the series of Adidas 1.
Through the sensor inside the shoe and a micro-mechanical
structure, Adidas 1 can sense the strength of every step and
change automatically the proper heel hardness so as to
achieve the best anti-shock effects. The same pair of running