Until now limited to capturing a few basic data, the connected sport market will experience a revolution.

PIQ today unveils two major inventions:

• GAIA autonomous intelligence which - for the first time in the world - understands and analyzes sports gestures
• The super powerful super sensor: PIQ ROBOTTM

Thanks to the combination of these breakthrough innovations, athletes can now identify their Winning Factors, that is to say the strengths of their game on which they must rely to win.

GAIA - The story of this secret project on which more than 50 engineers have worked for 2 years

GAIA is the first Artificial Intelligence system for autonomous understanding of sports gestures. To break down and analyze sports movements, several specific motion-capture algorithms have been developed. GAIA has therefore been able to study - for two years - thousands of athletes and millions of gestures.

GAIA has thus developed a machine learning system allowing it to learn how to learn and to continue to develop its intelligence. This multi-algorithmic machine-learning intelligence - the result of fundamental and applied research - is now able to understand and analyze the microscopic nuances of sports gestures - and its analysis is constantly being refined, day after day.

The development of GAIA required 2 years of research and development and two fundraising, of 6 million euros in April 2016 and 7 million euros in March 2015.

PIQ then managed to embed all of GAIA's computing power in its ultra-powerful PIQ ROBOTTM sensor

Much more than a simple sensor, PIQ ROBOTTM is a powerful nano-computer capable of analyzing in real time more than 195 data per minute. Without taking out your smartphone, it tells you on its screen the essential data of your game.

In order to be able to integrate GAIA's intelligence into PIQ ROBOTTM, PIQ has made a free upgrade of its hardware available to all its customers. All current PIQ customers can thus benefit from this revolution.

Finally, PIQ has put these major innovations at the service of athletes by developing the analysis of Winning Factors

Thanks to the statistical intelligence of GAIA and the measurement capability of PIQ ROBOTTM, the millions of data generated per hour of play is now analyzed in depth.

Each athlete can thus compare their sporting performance on a given day to their past performances and those of the community.

He can see what are his Winning Factors, that is to say the strengths of his game. Knowing his strengths, the athlete can now focus his game on them and get closer to victory.

PIQ aims to make this major technological innovation accessible to as many people as possible.

Cédric Mangaud, President and co-founder, claims: “With GAIA and the Winning Factors, we are bringing connected sport into a new paradigm. Our technology allows the athlete, no longer simply to measure his performance, but to be accompanied by benefiting from personalized advice to achieve victory. Our ambition is now to directly integrate our technologies into sports products to offer a fully integrated experience for athletes ".

PIQ Sport Intelligence has become the exclusive technological partner of world sport leaders: Babolat for tennis, Mobitee for golf, Rossignol for Ski and North Kiteboarding for kitesurfing.

A true laboratory for technological innovation, PIQ Sport Intelligence shares with these sports giants an ambition for excellence and technological innovation in the service of athletes.

Jean-Marc Zimmerman, Director of Digital Products and Services at Babolat - the world's leading tennis equipment supplier - declares: “We are delighted to have forged this partnership with PIQ Sport Intelligence. Thanks to the technology developed by PIQ, we are going to be able to make available to millions of tennis players not just data, but truly information, thanks to analysis tools that were unimaginable 1 or more ago. 2 years. With Babolat and PIQ and the Babolat POP application, everyone will be able to better understand and analyze their game to get closer to victory ”.

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