Plantiga 2.37
It’s been a busy month for our team building new features and hardware, iterating on existing workflows, and optimizing the platform.
Athlete Dashboard
We’re stoked to launch the Athlete Dashboard, to highlight pertinent information all on one screen:
AthleteLoad™ with today’s values compared to typical ranges
Intensity with today’s values compared to typical ranges
AthleteLoad™, Push-off, and Impact asymmetries
Acute to chronic ratios in different metrics (AthleteLoad™, Intensity, and Max Speed).
Heat map showing AthleteLoad™ over the last 12 months
The activity feed and trends are still available in the left side navigation bar.
** This is just version 1. We have a bunch of additions coming over the next couple of months.
Trends Improvements
The trends page keeps getting better. We have overhauled the plot editor so it is more intuitive to select metrics, and compare them between custom activity types.
The trend legends are also clearer and interactive. Click the legend items to hide/show the series on the plot.
NBA Collaboration
After extensive third party validation of our metrics by the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, which we passed with flying colors, I am excited to announce that Plantiga is on the NBA’s approved wearables list! This is big and now means we are permitted by the NBA and their union (NBAPA) to collect on players.
We are working closely this year with the NBA on a project for monitoring a number of WNBA teams, as well as an elite U17 team. Our goal is to build a first-of-its-kind dataset on how women’s basketball players move and perform at various ages along the development pathway.
More on this to come, but we’ll be presenting this work at the NBA’s Summer League event in July.
Expanding Orthotics Capabilities
We built out a process for collaborating with any orthotics lab. We designed a stencil for ensuring proper placement, a tray design that can be glued into an orthotic, plus a new covering system.
Here is a specifications page any orthotics lab can use to embed the Plantiga pods: Plantiga Sensor Placement
Footcare Express Partnership
This is a big one for us. There are only a handful of labs in the world that work with the number of elite athletes and athlete organizations that Footcare Express does. Based in Miami, Florida, they work with many NCAA programs and are deployed across all major sports leagues in the US and globally.
We are doing some key work in embedding our pod directly in the custom orthotic devices they produce for various types of sports. Moving forward, any of our partners can request a custom orthotic from Footcare Express, specify Plantiga, and they’ll take care of the rest.
Big shout out to Jarett Reinhartz and Dr. Charles Mutschler for their work on this partnership.
Little changes = big improvements
Improvements to the pod chips on plantiga.io
Customizable pod names
Default pod IDs on plantiga.io now match those printed on the pods
Improvements to the activity cards
See RSI for Cyclic Jump and Cyclic Single Leg Jump tests
See Distance for Single Leg Jump Distance tests
Added a Dock Dashboard page
Removed the idle requirement from the end of recorded activities
Modified pod sticker design for easier use
Ensure you are on the latest version by checking the bottom left corner of your screen. If it does not show “latest” then refresh plantiga.io to update the site.
Any and all feedback is welcome and encouraged.
Cheers,
Quin and the Plantiga Team