By bringing artificial intelligence to its wearable tech, PIQ is looking to improve on its design. Until now, sports wearables have largely boiled down to high-tech sensors recording basic data. With the addition of GAIA Intelligence, the company will be able to make the PIQ Robot that much better at improving your performance. Both the PIQ Robot and GAIA Intelligence give coaches and athletes the ability to analyze every movement during a game or match. This data can then be compared with any previous performances as well as with a community's performance overall.

By bringing artificial intelligence to its wearable tech, PIQ is looking to improve on its design. Until now, sports wearables have largely boiled down to high-tech sensors recording basic data. With the addition of GAIA Intelligence, the company will be able to make the PIQ Robot that much better at improving your performance. Both the PIQ Robot and GAIA Intelligence give coaches and athletes the ability to analyze every movement during a game or match. This data can then be compared with any previous performances as well as with a community's performance overall.

Can artificial intelligence win a championship or that much coveted Gold medal for an individual athlete? Well, one company has not one but two solutions that incorporates artificial intelligence (AI) technology into sports wearables. PIQ is a start-up based in France that has been working for two years to develop this AI interface. The company has poured more than $18 million into this project and has currently a team of 50 engineers working on AI interface that informs the athlete's own "winning factors", while also pinpointing key strengths and strategy for success. According to PIQ, connected sports are limited as they just capture basic data.

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PIQ, a leading French start-up in sports wearables today unveiled a breakthrough innovation with the introduction of a genuine Artificial Intelligence interface dedicated to sports activities. After 2 years of R&D and €13m investments, PIQ's 50 engineers developed a revolutionary technology, protected by 10 international patents allowing to identify athletes' Winning Factors, highlighting the key strength they should leverage on to succeed. From a world where connected sports were limited to the capture of basic data, PIQ's two cutting edge innovations are opening new horizons to the Sport Wearables industry: The combination of GAIA and PIQ ROBOTTM enables athletes to identify their Winning Factors, highlighting the key strength they should leverage on to succeed. GAIA – GAIA is the first Artificial Intelligence system that autonomously understands sports movement. GAIA is capable of breaking down and analyze sports movements via specific motion-capture algorithms.

Pedometers were the first sports wearable and now seem almost quaint. Today's wearables have grown in capabilities and formats, providing complex data on your overall fitness and easily integrates into your lifestyle. Smart watches, fit bits, simple pedometers and high-tech clothing are part of the multi-billion-dollar business that is the smart sports and fitness wearable industry. These products generated 3.5 billion in revenues in 2014 and sales are anticipated to reach 14.9 billion by 2021. Fitness trackers are the most broadly used sports wearables and provide information about the number of steps taken, calories burned, and stairs climbed although some also include heart rate and sleep pattern monitoring, and GPS tracking.