SMART FITNESS

Personal fitness at home has seen a rise over the past few years, but despite the convenience of never having to head to the gym, not everyone has been able to embrace a healthier lifestyle for various reasons. Those include the cost of home fitness equipment and subscriptions, as well as doubts about the correctness of the exercises you’re doing.

Just as you don’t need equipment to exercise at home, you might not also need a human trainer to always be looking over your shoulder, especially not with today’s technology. Combining the latest innovations in imaging and AI, the AIMOOV smart camera is able to transform any TV into your home gym, complete with an intelligent coach that will nudge you a bit when your form is wrong, ensuring that you get the best workout even when working out solo.

There are actually very few reasons why home exercise can’t be a sustainable effort –excluding creative excuses, naturally. You don’t even need special equipment, especially when your own body or some pieces of furniture can be used to provide the necessary tools for that. The one valid concern on people’s minds would be the potential injury they might incur if they do the exercises right. Usually, you’d need a personal trainer to guide you through the proper movements, but thankfully, we now have AI for that as well.

AIMOOV is the combination of a camera that connects to any TV with an HDMI port and an AI that acts as your fitness coach. The simplicity of the camera, which is about the size of a soda can, belies the advanced technology found inside. A Sony STARVIS sensor, for example, makes sure that you can use AIMOOV even when there’s little light in the room. It can connect to your smartphone and smartwatch to give you more insight into your fitness goals. And thanks to its privacy cover and the fact that it has no mic, you can always be assured of your privacy when you’re not using it.

The secret sauce of AIMOOV is, of course, in the AI trainer. It offers a wide range of workouts from professional coaches to match whatever fitness goals you might have. It then monitors your every move so that it can correct your form when it detects that something is wrong, reducing the risk of injuries and optimising your exercise efficiency.

You can also control the whole program using gestures, so you won’t have to reach out for a remote control or phone in the middle of a workout. And when you’re in need of a morale boost, you can connect to your Spotify account and play your favourite music as you move to the beat.