Supersapiens, which is ‘powered by Abbott’s Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor’, has announced its initial integration of the Supersapiens Connect IQ app with Garmin.
This marks a major turning point for the glucose monitoring & management tool. By connecting with Garmin, the Supersapiens platform becomes a key data metric for Garmin device owners, with glucose/energy sitting alongside data points such as speed, heart rate, cadence and power.
Supersapiens has been building momentum in recent months, with a recent US$13.5m early-stage funding round and title sponsorship of the IRONMAN World Championship.
The latest integration will provide select users with a compatible Garmin smartwatch or Edge cycling computer with real-time glucose visibility ‘allowing them to go faster longer’. The Supersapiens app can now be downloaded now from the Connect IQ store.
“We brought the Supersapiens app, powered by Abbott’s Libre Sense, to market six months ago with the goal of providing athletes with live visibility of their glucose levels during exercise,” says company founder and CEO Phil Southerland.
“Announcing this Garmin integration enables Supersapiens to fulfill this promise. Every day since then, our customers have been asking for this amazing feature and, as a company, we are here to serve our community.
“It brings all of us great pride to support these athletes as they strive for their biggest goals in 2021 and beyond. Having real-time glucose visibility on Garmin bike computers and smartwatches will empower athletes to optimize their fuelling during training, racing, and beyond.”
Partnering with global healthcare leader Abbott makes Supersapiens the only energy management product ecosystem that directly integrates with a Bluetooth-enabled sports continuous glucose monitor (CGM) — the Abbott Libre Sense Glucose Sport Biosensor.
Supersapiens offers athletes access to glucose data, with real-time glucose levels transmitted directly to their phone and now to select Garmin bike computers and smartwatches. Supersapiens’ set of data interpretation tools claims to be ‘leading the future of fuelling, energy management, and sports performance.’
Users can now sync Garmin smartwatches and Edge cycling computers with the Supersapiens app to receive live glucose readings on their device. This, coupled with features such as Firstbeat Analytics, ClimbPro and the ability to see additional sensor data, provides Garmin users with insights to manage their effort on a ride or run.
“We are thrilled to be the first hardware platform to offer this integration to our customers,” said Kelly Hancox, Garmin Senior Director of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships.
“By providing athletes with this data right on their Garmin cycling computer or smartwatch, they can make more informed training decisions and in turn, take their performance to the next level.”
Todd Furneaux, Supersapiens co-founder and President, said “Allowing athletes to have minute-by-minute fuelling data during a workout on select Garmin bike computers and smartwatches helps them quickly identify the correlation between glucose levels and performance.
“Visibility into this data allows them to stay within their glucose performance zone, which translates into more fuelled training minutes, which provides bigger performance gains.”
The Supersapiens ecosystem powered by Abbott’s Libre Sense is currently available in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
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