How Smart Shoes are Redefining the Footwear Industry?

The world is becoming smarter everyday with new digital disruptions in each and every industry. Footwear industry is also no exception. Smart shoes are coming to revolutionize the way maintain your health and fitness and live a magical life.

A smart shoe is a shoe with a tracker helping in evaluating number of steps taken, identifying the most touched-down area in the feet, and the maintaining the amount of calories per day. Smart shoes are also built with features such as changing its color with LED strip lights, auto-tightening of the shoelaces etc.

A smart shoe can offer almost all health-related metrics helping the wearer to follow a healthy lifestyle. Isn’t it impressive to see how the rapid evolution of technology is benefitting the people?

So, do you want to know how these smart shoes work?

Smart shoes are designed with a lot of in-built sensors such as gyroscope, magnetometer, accelerometer, atmospheric pressure sensors, and ambient environmental sensors.

These sensors keep detailed track of your daily activities. They offer in-depth information about:

• Number of steps you are taking
• Intervals between the steps
• The interval time
• calories burnt
• how much calories left to burn
• Temperature in the shoes
• Pressure points in feet
• The fatigue level
• Your real-time location
• What is your weight?
• Are you following your correct posture?

Smart shoes have many other benefits such as it can transmit detailed updates of your smartphone. However, this is just the first baby step of the gadget. Definitely, there are many more advancements and features to come and revolutionize the footwear industry. Let’s have a look at some of the best smart shoes of 2021.

Some of the Best Smart Shoes Available in 2021

1. Nike Hyper-adapt 1.0

Nike is one of the most popular shoe brands with cooler design and styles. The brand has already embarked into the smart shoe journey with its Hyperactive 1.0. It is a cool self-lacing shoe. It enables auto-lacing with the help of algorithmic pressure equation tech.

2. HOVR Phantom

HOVR phantom is a smart shoe that helps you by displaying pace, step tracker, and other essentials that are required to monitor your fitness. The smart shoe sensor runs on Map My Run, an app compatible with both iOS and Android.

3. Digitsole

Digitsole is another smart shoe with auto-lacing, temperature control, and other features which makes it way better than Nike Hyperactive shoe. This shoe is operated by Bluetooth 4.0 and capable of sending precise data to your smartphone.

4. Altra Torin IQ

Altra Torin IQ shoe stands distinguished from the other smart shoes as it provides precise data of both the feet separately. This shoe provides accurate data for every walk or run. It’s operable on iFit application on smartphones.

5. Xiaomi MiJia Smart Shoes

Xiaomi smart shoes are more convenient than the other shoes. However, these shoes are very expensive. A box packing holds the Xiaomi MiJia smart shoe where the shoes and the tracker are packed separately. All you have do is to open one sole and slide the tracker in after connecting it with the app.

A Future of Hope

For runners these shoes come with a large amount of data. There’s no doubt that these shoes are solving many first world problems and with the rising popularity of these shoes it can be predicted that the footwear industry is all set to be revolutionized with smart shoes.

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Upama Goswami

Upama Goswami is a creative writer, editor, aspiring poet, and life-long learner of philosophy, literature, technology, and all things interesting. Her works have been published in various online publications. Upama is quite creative in her craft and can engage her audience with a compelling style of storytelling. She loves to paint, travel, exploring different niches of performing arts, watching movies, and learn new languages in her free time.