Inertial footpod

An inertial footpod is a device used to track running measurements such as speed, distance travelled, pace, etc., which would generally only be available on treadmills or with a GPS unit.

Foot pod attached to a running shoe.

This device is usually small and attaches to a runner's foot. It uses one or more accelerometers and processes several times a second to compute speed.

One example is the foot pod employed by the Polar S625x running computer.

See also

• Musgrave Footprint
• Pedometer

Further reading

• Stirling, Ross; Fyfe, Ken; Lachapelle, Gérard (2005). "Evaluation of a New Method of Heading Estimation for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Using Shoe Mounted Sensors". Journal of Navigation. 58 (1): 31–45. Bibcode:2005JNav...58...31S. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.470.4632. doi:10.1017/S0373463304003066. S2CID 16086241.
• Lowe, Shane; Ólaighin, Gearóid (2012). "The age of the virtual trainer". Procedia Engineering. 34: 242–7. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2012.04.042.
• Camous, Fabrice; McCann, Dónall; Roantree, Mark (2008). Capturing Personal Health Data from Wearable Sensors. 2008 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet. Turku, Finland. pp. 153–6. doi:10.1109/SAINT.2008.67. ISBN 978-0-7695-3297-4.
• Young, C; Fleming, P. R.; Dixon, S; Carré, M. J. (2008). "Shoe Signature Monitoring for Advanced Running Technique (P145)". In Estivalet, Margaret; Brisson, Pierre (eds.). The Engineering of Sport 7. pp. 35–43. doi:10.1007/978-2-287-09413-2_5. ISBN 978-2-287-09412-5.
• Weyand, Peter G.; Kelly, Maureen; Blackadar, Thomas; Darley, Jesse C.; Oliver, Steven R.; Ohlenbusch, Norbert E.; Joffe, Sam W.; Hoyt, Reed W. (July 2001). "Ambulatory estimates of maximal aerobic power from foot-ground contact times and heart rates in running humans". Journal of Applied Physiology. 91 (1): 451–8. doi:10.1152/jappl.2001.91.1.451. PMID 11408463.