It is no secret that digital technology is slowly shaping the future of the healthcare industry. The use of fitness tracking devices has grown rapidly, the philosophy being ‘that which gets measured can be improved’. The MetaSys team has worked on integrating tracking devices with Fitness and Nutrition Applications. This article describes one such achievement, namely integration of Myzone into our clients’ application.
Our client: Genavix is a venture in the preventive health care services industry. It offers members comprehensive health and fitness solutions to reduce health risks and improve wellness. They provide various fitness and nutrition plans helping associates follow a healthy lifestyle.
About Myzone: Myzone is an innovative wearable heart rate based system. It uses wireless and cloud technology to monitor physical activity. Myzone allows the user to view their fitness efforts live on their phone, such as how many calories they are burning. Users are also able to make connections and compete with other individuals in the network. Based on their fitness efforts, users are awarded MEPs (Myzone Effort Points), which they can use to challenge others on the platform.
We at MetaSys were given the task of integrating the Myzone system with our client’s application. Our solution used the fact that each Myzone device has a unique belt number, which is registered with a particular wellness facility. Users are able to submit their Myzone belt number, after which a unique ID is assigned to their profile. The client system can then track all Myzone activities.
One of the challenges we faced in the integration, was that the data obtained from the Myzone API is only available for the last three months. As a long term health app, our client tracks fitness for a much longer duration. To resolve this issue, we decided to import the data every night by creating a task scheduler, which imports data from the Myzone API into the application SQL tables.
Each wellness facility with registered Myzone belts has a unique API key. Using this API key and Myzone Cloudbase API – 2.0.3, a web request API call is made which retrieves Myzone API data of each user in the previous three months. The data is received in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), is then interpreted in Asp.net and imported into the application SQL tables. The imported data is used to build a user fitness diary that integrates the Myzone data with data that has been manually entered in the application by the user. The detailed tracking of fitness, such as tracking calories is used to help every user, achieve their daily health and fitness goals.
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