Upload Heart Rate, Speed, Cadence and Power from the iPhone and iPod touch to TrainingPeaks

Using a new wireless bridge called SMHEART LINK™, iPhone and iPod touch users can now upload workouts with heart rate, speed, cadence and power data to their TrainingPeaks account with little more than the tap of a button.

“When you combine the simplicity and convenience of iPhone apps with rich Internet applications like TrainingPeaks.com, tracking your training becomes easier than ever before,” said Donavon Guyot, CEO of Peaksware. “Now workout data from heart rate monitors, speed and cadence sensors and even power meters can be tracked on Apple’s unparalleled touch screen and effortlessly uploaded to your TrainingPeaks account.”

“We are honored to be working with TrainingPeaks, the industry-leading software for workout data recording and analysis,” added Michael Williams, CEO of SMHEART LINK™ creator iTMP. “By providing an even easier and faster way to upload data from a wide variety of heart rate and power devices, we will help make the use of this amazing software even more accessible to everyone.”

SMHEART LINK™ is dual-mode analog and digital, meaning it can pick up signals from most of the leading heart rate monitors including analog devices from Accumen, Highgear, New Balance, Nike, Numetrex, Oregon Scientific, Polar, and Reebok, and digital devices like CycleOps, Garmin and Timex Ironman Race Trainer, as well as a growing list of other fitness sensors made by companies in the ANT+ alliance. Examples include Garmin’s GSC-10 Speed and Cadence sensor, Star Trac’s cadence sensor for the SPINNING Computer and the the Quarq CinQo power meter.

Two of iTMP’s iPhone apps upload data directly to Training Peaks via the SMHEART LINK™:

• iRPM+™ - Bike Computer/Heart Monitor is a cardio fitness system and cycling computer that works with SMHEART LINK to track any cardio exercise, anywhere. Download iRPM+™ for free in the iTunes App Store.

• iBPM+™ - Heart Rate Monitor allows the iPhone to double as a heart rate monitor tracking cardio exercise indoors or out.

Both apps are available free for a limited time on the iPhone App Store. Download iBPM+™ for free in the iTunes App Store.

Comments

[Alan]

It took me a minute to figure out what this does - if I'm understanding it right the SMHEART link is a wireless bridge between your training device and the iphone, then you go into the iphone app to upload to TrainingPeaks? It sounds like a lot of steps, and you end up with data on a 3rd device (iphone)...what's the advantage? Not being critical though, I like where this is going. I use a Powertap with CyclingPeaks/TrainingPeaks and I'm looking forward to the day when TrainingPeaks does all the power analysis I need and I can bypass the desktop app completely. At that point something like this to upload data wirelessly will be great.

[Terrence]

this i pretty cool.. how come the app is not available in Canada?

[Todd]

If one could skip the powermeter computer and simply mount your iphone to the handlebars it would be great. You could skip the download step because the iphone is internet connected. Plus it would mean that a powermeter would be more affordable because only the wheel sensor hub would have to be purchased. Why is the bridge needed? Isn't the iphone ant+ capable?

[dav]

Has anyone figured out how to turn this into a type of Computrainer? (Obviously no erg feature)