Re: Accelerometer

John.Ewans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Where may we see how this check function is computed?

Thanks -
Carl

I'm afraid that we don't publish exactly how this is calculated,
although the fundamentals are exactly as you proposed. The reason is
that it took a lot of work to develop an algorithm that gave results
that were both meaningful and stable and for the moment we would like
to keep this proprietary.

Out of interest, we are currently working with a leading rowing
biomechanist and when this work is complete we hope to be able to give
people more guidance on how to use the check readings.


Many thanks, John, for that quick response.

Obviously your code is proprietary. Anything worth doing, like this, take hard work. And, unlike some in this sport, I think hard original intellectual work deserves protection.

That said, we recently had an interesting discussion on the significance of erg data. Data derives from measurements & computation & either has absolute meaning & significance (although it may have limited numeric accuracy due to limitations in the means of measurement) or it has very little. I'm sure that, before you wrote 5000 lines of code, you had a precise mathematical definition of the output result. So I suppose you can exactly state the computed meaning of an output without revealing the computations that got you there or any other proprietary matters?

Cheers -
Carl

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