Application Portuguese approaching cycling, cyclists and fans - TeK.sapo

A few weeks Tour and Vuelta , two of the main evidence of circuit cycling world, and also a few weeks of the start of the Tour Portugal, the application that follows aimed at professionals, amateurs and fans of the sport. The Bike Spy is developed by Portuguese and want to make the sport more informed on wheels.

The application is the responsibility of Dailywork, a company in the area of ??information technology. The Bike Spy appears as a second adventure of cycling in the area, as the company has another application, On Bike Computer, which was developed in partnership with the Portuguese Cycling Federation as a support system for high-performance athletes.

The Bike Spy wants to create a greater connection between the public and athletes of different modalities of cycling, be it road, mountain biking or indoor . On the screen of your phone or tablet users will be able to control the values ??of the pulsations and speed at which cyclists are helping to reduce the concept of fugacity.

But what is the interest that is to know which beats heart of an athlete? Richard Silver, the Dailywork, used an analogy to explain the TeK the interest of these data, “for example, in football there are several statistics and even shows the distance traveled by the players, thus observing the efforts of each one.” “In cycling there is interest in knowing the actual speed and heart rate equivalent to the effort,” he added.

For now the only problem is the use of ANT + technology as a system of communication between cyclists and mobile phones. Taking Sony, few manufacturers that include this protocol originated in smartphones. The transmission of data via Bluetooth would be another possibility, but this is not the standard used by teams and athletes from cycling, also because of underperformance relative to ANT +.

The Bike Spy is for now only available for the Android operating system, but it is not excluded that also make a version for iOS. First Dailywork will analyze progessão of apps in the Google ecosystem before moving on to the iPhone and iPad. As the equipment brand apple do not support the ANT +, it would be necessary to resort to a peripheral device, which constrain investment.

In the future Dailywork want to introduce support for more sensors, such as GPS, for applications to gain more functions such as tracking a route and distance calculation, power and effort spent on this route.

Rui da Rocha Ferreira

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