Wearable Smart Equipment, Too Hot, Smart Shoes, The Future Is Broad.

How many of the wearable smart devices are there? How many friends are there? How many friends have you put on your beloved watch and put on the smart bracelet? Brush your WeChat circle to see how many people are drying their sports data. With some curiosity and some doubt, are you able to buy a pair of shoes with positioning function for your child? The appearance of wearable smart equipment is not two days a day. As early as 2006, Nike and Apple jointly released the Nike+ iPod smart wearable device, but the Nike+ that won the eyeball did not really burn up.

In the past two years, with the sharing of economy and virtual social networking in China, the emergence of smart shoes has begun to show itself.

Including Internet giants, traditional shoe companies, and even large multinationals have been testing water smart shoes.

Google, Nike, Adidas, Lining, 361 degrees, Chi Chi technology, double Chi, perfect, cloud, magic orange...

Many well-known and unknown enterprises at home and abroad have launched an exploration in the field of intelligent footwear.

However, behind the scenery of smart shoes, it is still difficult to escape the fate of users' Tucao - "too bad positioning, if the child really lost, how can it be found?" "really terrible, the critical moment is no electricity!" "even the simplest distance is not accurate, is this high tech?" "who can think that shoes will also crash?"

Originally, it was born on the east side of technology. But when the user experience was one hundred and eight thousand miles away from high technology, smart shoes were regarded as the gimmick of business speculation by more and more people, while consumers who still willing to pay the bill were the first to eat crabs with entertainment and interest.

IDC, a market research firm, announced that by the end of 2016, global shipments of wearable devices will reach 110 million, an increase of 38.2% over the same period last year.

It is worth exploring that in this attractive big cake, how much can a smart shoe get? Can high-tech be trusted, is it just a gimmick of smart shoes? What is the future trend of smart shoes? In the wearable smart equipment, smart shoes are not the largest ones yet, but their uniqueness is irreplaceable.

According to the data released by ID, wearable devices (including smart watches,

Glasses and footwear grew by 171% in 2015, with a total sales of 78 million units.

Among them, Fitbit 2015 sold about 21 million devices, millet sold about 12 million devices in 2015, and about 10 million 600 thousand devices were sold in Apple Watch2015.

Analysis shows that the global sales of smart wearable devices are mainly due to the support of the three elements of products, such as "show", ecological maturity and giant leadership.

"The potential of the smart shoe market is enormous, and targeted products can be developed for different groups of people."

Dr. Lining, director of the center for sports science research at the, said: "the value of smart shoes is not just about clothes and trends.

2016 is the year of big data. The data of sports habits of smart wearable hardware are of great value to consumers and brands.

On the one hand, it can provide consumers with better exercise evaluation or other training related guidance suggestions. On the other hand, it can also plan better products and services for consumers through the integration of big data on the other hand.

For example, we can see from the data that the areas or routes that the runners are more concentrated can consider opening shops or engaging in interactive activities in these areas, so that consumers can buy products and experience services more closely. "

In the eyes of Chen Weidong, founder of Chi BIE Technology Co., Ltd., the biggest difference between smart shoes and other wearable devices is that the pressure of bipedal walking can be converted to electricity, thus generating self generating capacity.

"Although the sway of the hand can bring a little kinetic energy, it is very small. It can not meet the energy supply of large power smart hardware at all.

For this reason, I think the potential of smart shoes in the future may exceed other intelligent devices. "

Unfortunately, this unique feature does not make smart shoes stand out from the wearable smart devices. Most of the smart shoes on the market are still like other wearable devices, replacing battery or charging as a way to supplement their power.

The same is for battery and battery charging.

How can you spell other intelligent equipment? After all, charging a smelly shoe is hard to please.

The so-called intelligence of smart shoes is nothing more than a function of positioning and calculating, so that the embarrassing situation of smart shoes in the market can be seen.

"The energy generated by walking does not need to be recharged". The uniqueness of the smart shoe that should become the selling point has become the biggest bottleneck in its development. At present, the research and development is still in the initial stage of exploration.

Dr. Lining, director of the center for sports science research of, said that the smart shoes that can be generated from human body movements are an important direction of research and development. At present, Lining brand has begun to explore this aspect. But the more powerful and intelligent the hardware is, the stronger the demand for electricity is. The power stored by walking, running or cycling is temporarily unable to fully meet the huge energy demand of smart shoes.

In early 2015, the British Mirror reported that the German researchers developed an automatic lacing shoe with an energy collection system installed inside the shoe to pform the energy of the user's movement into electricity.

Inside the shoe.

It is placed at the bottom of the automatic lacing shoe. When the foot of the user swings by movement, the magnet will move between the loops and generate electric current. The swing sensor will collect and store these energy for shoes.

But it has not achieved ideal results in energy harvesting, so researchers at the Institute are still improving their efficiency.

In China, technology companies that conduct in-depth research on smart shoes from power generation technology are few and far between.

In this field, Microsoft's partner, Zhi Zhi shoes Technology Co., Ltd., after decades of exploration and precipitation, uses the pressure generated by people walking in shoes to form the principle of magnetic line cutting, and gets a steady stream of green energy in shoes. It eliminates the trouble and inconvenience caused by users' frequent charging for intelligent hardware. Now, it has developed the first generation outdoor intelligent positioning shoes, which are generated from power generation, and will be put into mass production in the year.

It is reported that the new product is specially designed for outdoor travel, field work, military and other fields. It is not only comfortable and skid proof, but also keeps track of the wearers' activities, has the function of emergency positioning and alarm, and can even charge emergency for small smart devices such as mobile phones.

In addition, the smart positioning shoes, designed to ensure the safety of children and the elderly, will also be released in the near future.