Hi ##firstname##, here's your STRN update for the summer!

What you'll find in this newsletter

1. 🏃 Infographic: Current and Potential Applications of Wearables in Sports Cardiology
2. 💫 Spin-offs in Sports Tech: IDRO
3. 📢 News: Integrating Wearables into Sports Performance Monitoring
4. 🥜 Summit in a nutshell

And some interesting reads for during your vacation!

Current and Potential Applications of Wearables in Sports Cardiology 👇

Did you know that there are currently no standardized approaches for the use of wearable-derived data in sports cardiology? 🧐

This has been studied by Harvard Medical School, UCLA and Case Western Reserve University. 

Find out more about this study in this infographic!

Spin-offs in Sports Tech #9: IDRO

The IDRO team with Maarten Gijssel, Pierre Padilla, Kevin Van Hoovels (doctoral researcher, Ghent University) are bringing to market real-time sweat lactate measurement through skin sweat!Bringing to market real-time sweat lactate measurement through skin sweat! 💦

📱 Athletes and coaches can check the levels immediately on their phones to improve their training, performance, and recovery.

Read about this spin-off!

3 Considerations for Integrating Wearables into Sports Performance Monitoring

Guest blog byEmily Matijevich 👏

💡The goal of this blog is to empower sports scientists and athletes with takeaways on how to evaluate if a wearable is an accurate, actionable, and practical tool for monitoring sports performance.

Check the full article! 

Summit 2022 in a nutshell

Take a look at the video about the Summit 2022 at September 14-15! 

Panels, keynotes, breakout sessions, matchmaking conversations, social activities...

Focused on sensors and digital technologies such as wearables, apps, AI, platforms... for health and performance related purposes!

Join us!

Interesting reads (for now or during your vacation if you're planning to take some) 👀

Industry insights

🏀 Inside the NBA’s ‘Launchpad’ incubator for tech start-ups

🏟️ Athlete monitoring practices in elite sport in the United Kingdom

⚽ FIFA will track players’ bodies using AI to make offside calls at 2022 World Cup

🏉 The RFL, Super League and Leeds Beckett University to deploy instrumented mouthguards throughout Rugby

💪 Smart Textiles Sense How Their Users are Moving

Research papers

👕 Development of a Stretchable Circuit and its Integration Method on Knit Fabrics for Lower Back Injury Prevention

🔍 Europe’s top 10 ‘unicorn universities’ 2022

🤸 Skin-Interfaced Microfluidic System with Machine Learning-Enabled Image Processing of Sweat Biomarkers in Remote Settings

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