Waterfi Launches Swim Tracker
Waterfi, a company that looks to make electronics like FitBit water-friendly, has unveiled its own swim tracker.
The head-mounted swim tracker provides stats on laps, rests, distance, sets, calories, strokes, paces, and breaths.
Users need to press one button on the device to start and stop the tracker. At the end of the swim session, the tracker wirelessly syncs all stats to the Waterfi app. Over time, its algorithm learns specific swimming techniques, improving the tracking quality with each swim.
Waterfi was established in 2010 and takes existing fitness trackers, headphones, phones and other electronics and applies a substance to protect the device from exposure to chlorine, salt water, sweat and shock.
The new swim tracker is the first device created by the company and instead of just an accelerometer on the wrist doing the legwork, Waterfi’s Swim Tracker uses a 9-axis inertial measuring unit that houses an accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope, the same technology that is built into VR headsets, deones and spacecraft.
The tracker can also store up to 60 swims and collect data for up to 13 hours of swimming on one charge, with users able to view their activity in the companion app once out the pool
“We realised that watches are fundamentally poor swim trackers because they only track one hand and not the rest of the body. A head mounted swim tracker greatly improved the quality, and scope of data collected during a swim. In addition to strokes and lengths, we can track direction and swim form,” said Waterfi founder Royce Nicholas.
