Blog
The Connected Gym: Exploring the Benefits
9-March-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
The concept of a fully Connected Gym was set up in incremental stages from the easiest to the more complex. Tier 1 explained just setting up automated check-in, which also gives you check out. It can integrate with your existing system. In addition, if there is a wearable component, the act of checking in and
Read MoreThe Connected Gym: Tier 3- Sensor Fusion
24-February-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
In the previous articles Connected Gym, Part 1 and Part 2, we examined how to outfit your club with a system to allow automatic capture of workouts in the club using a smart watch and beacons. Part 1 described a minimum setup that has a clear set of benefits. Part 2 expanded that across the
Read More
The Connected Gym: Tier 2- Adding Beacons
15-February-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Part 2 of the Connected Gym series. Once you've got automated check-in, the next step is to expand the solution and cover the club. The benefit is a wealth of new analytical data to make your club more efficient and identify new sources of revenue, and most easily identify upsells.
Read MoreSmart Home of the Future
29-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
The ideal smart home of the future will be fully automated, learn on it's own, yet provide seamless override by the owner when needed.
Read More
Becoming A Runner
16-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
From being the worst athlete in the world to loving running. How I turned something I hated into something I love.
Read MoreWiFi Sensing in the Smart Home
8-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
I saw an interesting announcement today from Linksys regarding new WiFi sensing capabilities. Their Velop system can already be reliably used to detect intruders in your house. While currently they cannot tell the location of the person, they say they are working on this. They announced this week that the system is getting an upgrade.
Read More
Quantified Self: How I Finally Made Fitness Wo...
6-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
For most of my life Fitness has evaded me. I was skinny in high school and even on Swim Team for a year, but I was not athletic. I didn’t like Phys Ed, it was not engaging for me. After College, slowly the weight came on. I made efforts off and on to control it,
Read MoreThe Connected Gym: Tier 1- Automated Check-in ...
2-January-2020 By Jeffrey Cooper
Advanced Technology in your Fitness Club. How to implement a Digital Doorway to your gym's Immersive Fitness space.
Read More
Photography
27-December-2019 By Jeffrey Cooper
I started a photo blog about 10 years ago called SirSnapALot. It was a tongue in cheek approach to giving photo advice, as I’ve been an avid photographer most of my life. During that time period, I was particularly active with a DLSR and then the early days of cell phone cameras. Looking back at
Read MoreDigital Distractions
21-December-2019 By Jeffrey Cooper
You will see a common theme in my writing about technology, and that is an emphasis on simplicity. The system you are deploying should be as simple as possible for the end user to use. Ideally, the user has little or nothing to do at all to use the system. In an Immersive Space, it’s
Read More
Recent Comments