After two years of research it is coming for professional skiers or aspiring skiers an inflexible coach which, moreover, is not wrong in giving data, judgments and advice. It is a very special trainer, from the French start-up PIQ, very few cm of silicon and noble materials, a dwarf robot which thanks to artificial intelligence identifies and immediately shows all the ski parameters on the display, allowing you to correct speed, turns, christiania, and also the so-called G force, the acceleration capacity.
It is not a simple pair of connected skis but real ones smart skis since they integrate a sports activity tracker, a nano pc on the Gaia platform, which "understands" sports movements, processes them and always in real time, transmits them on the Rossignol ski display, the HeroMaster model, allowing the athlete to correct himself, immediately, effectively with highly productive training.
The partnership between the French start-up, the only one in the world to study new technologies on sportsmen's movements, and the French giant Rossignol, already has a marketing program within the year. And besides, PIQ has other applications to its credit in other disciplines, in boxing, tennis, golf and kitesurfing.
in boxing, the nano pc built into the glove recognizes the type of shots, the speed and their impact. In golf it analyzes the strength of the gesture, the distance from the green by reproducing every move in 3D, as well as having more than 35 golf courses in its memory. For kitesurfing, the athlete immediately receives information on the height of each jump and once stopped can analyze all the data, hang time, landing, rotations and any parameter necessary to improve.
During the race can immediately compare with other athletes equipped with the digital jewel in a competition where cheating is not possible, the height is analyzed, calculated and immediately communicated as the surfer glides over the surface of the wave. The multinational Rossignol, which developed this nano pc in collaboration with PIQ, immediately sniffing out the new markets for wearable PCs for competitive sports, with a turnover of 209 million euros is the number one supplier for alpine sports and belongs among the many European companies which, after having relocated, are returning home for increasingly frequent relocations. Which allow, among other things, a more rapid and profitable development of digital innovations.
