Samsung created a SmartSuit to help improve training for Dutch short trackers

Last updated: Jan third, 2018 at 17:04 UTC+01:00

Samsung will go along its long association with the Olympics every bit the worldwide Olympic partner of the 2018 Wintertime Games that take place in PyeongChang, Due south Korea next month. Samsung Netherlands is sponsoring Sjinkie Knegt and Suzanne Schulting, two Dutch short rails racers, and information technology has created a SmartSuit for them to assistance improve their grooming.

The Samsung SmartSuit was tailor-fabricated for both brusk runway racers and it features five integrated sensors. The arrange was developed in collaboration with national motorcoach Jeroen Otter and movement scientist Bjorn de Laat. The sensors transmit data via a wireless connection to the national double-decker's Galaxy S8 who then adjusts the training regimen accordingly.

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Short track speed skating is a form of ice speed skating. Multiple skaters skate on an oval ice rail that'south 111.111 meters long in a rink that'due south the size of an international water ice hockey rink.

The skaters have to estimate how deep they need to get in the corners and on the straights to achieve optimum performance. Samsung'south SmartSuit relies on technology to provide accurate information down to the millimeter during the preparation sessions.

Since the suits were tailor-made, the organization knows the upper and lower leg lengths of both Sjinkie Knegt and Suzanne Schulting. The app can thus calculate the verbal body position immediately and let the autobus how what the verbal distance between the skater'southward hips to the water ice is in the bends and on the straights.

The motorbus can use the information to brand adjustments appropriately. If the skaters are non bending enough, he tin can notify them at the affect of a push in the app which causes a vibration on the wrist.

"The Samsung SmartSuit makes you lot fifty-fifty more enlightened of how deep you are or non and you can immediately signal whether you need to sit deeper. This keeps you lot alert and the improvement process will eventually get faster," Schulting said.

The 2018 Wintertime Olympic Games will take identify in Pyeongchang, South Korea starting Feb 9, 2018. Permit'due south run into if Samsung'due south high tech suit helps these Dutch competitors win big at the games. They won't be able to utilise it during the actual games, obviously, but the preparation sessions with the SmartSuit should help improve their skills.