While reading an announcement about Google Fit in this article, I got reminded of the great upcoming challenge around health data tracking technology.

There will soon be an abundance of health tracking sensors, watches, phones, and much more coming soon to a (e)shop near you. These sensors will track personal private data, including many health metrics: weight, heart rate, run times, body-building stats.

We will aim to provide, with the open platform Piwik, a way for users to collect and measure the data from all these health related sensors!

If Google Fit (or others) becomes a standard, then a plugin could offer Google Fit Analytics feature by letting anyone import the data from their sensors in this format. The Piwik and Health measurement / Life hacking community could get together and build a plugin for Piwik platform that lets someone track Health metrics.

See also

• Measure Wearables Measure wearables with Piwik #6778, and Build a generic Analytics platform: allow to measure 'Mobile App', 'Intranet Website', 'Wearable', 'Sensor' and more #4734

• Google Fit announcement on Techcrunch:

  From what were hearing, Google Fit will track all sorts of health data, such as weight, heart rate, run times, body-building stats and more. Fit APIs already exist for sensors, data reporting and app history. End users will be able to sync their Google Fit profiles to their Google IDs, which will make their data portable no matter what app or device theyre using. Like an OAuth for fitness, Fit will make fitness tracking a basic functionality for phones.