The last product to be released by Mio Global was the Mio Alpha 2 back in early 2015. Then it was all quiet with the occasional rehash of old trackers in new colours with the swansong of the year being the Garmin Forerunner 225, a collaboration with Garmin. So you can imagine the excitement when there’s word of new hardware and proprietary software these few days. Mio Global unveiled their Mio Slice activity tracker and PAI (Personal Activity Intelligence) at CES 2016 today.




The PAI is proprietary algorithm based on the Hunt study, an population based health study from Norway. The rationale is simple. Every individual differs and so does every step. 10000 steps taken over a period of 18 hours differs from 10000 steps made in 1 hour. What PAI does is derive the body’s response to the most recent 7 days of activity based on heart rate intensity into a score. The goal is simply to maintain a minimum score of 100.

Now because the PAI takes into consideration age, gender, resting heart rate and maximum heart rate, there appears to be more individualisation in terms of the measurable outcome. Indeed it sounds promising and the PAI algorithms will be available exclusively on Mio heart rate wearables. The Mio PAI mobile companion app is currently available on App store and Google Play store. I will probably have a go at the Mio PAI app and see how good it is the next few days.

The Mio Slice is the new fitness tracker from Mio Global that will display the user’s PAI scores based on all day heart rate monitoring. The wrist strap based activity tracker also hint at the availability of heart rate monitoring during exercise and some form of smart notifications. One can safely assume there will be 24/7 activity tracking as well. The Mio Slice heart rate activity tracker will be available in the later part of 2016 and we should know more then.

Sources: Mio Global