Supersapiens integration
This feature launched on Oct 4, 2022
3rd party body sensors —Supersapiens (Bluetooth integration with the Abbott Libre Biosensor) and CORE body sensor—launched with the launch of ROAM 2.0 on Oct 4, 2022.
Team
UX/UI Design: Mackenna Lees
Supersapiens team
Articles
Project details
Problem
Supersapiens is a mobile app and health ecosystem powered by Abbott Libre Biosensor.
The sensor itself has been used to monitor glucose levels for diabetics. Supersapiens—and the Supersapiens app— monitors glucose levels for athletic endeavors. Most importantly, pro cycling teams want to harness those learnings for their riders.
Supersapiens asked Wahoo to integrate the sensor into our GPS bike computers for use by our sponsored pro teams, just as our competitor Garmin had already done for their pro teams.
Process
Design sensor pairing flow
Digest sensor outputs (what is possible with this data?)
Design glucose field on GPS bike computer
Design glucose field set-up on companion app
Pro cycling teams with visible Abbott Libre Biosensors in team/race photos.
Pairing Abbott Libre Biosensor
Quickly pair — then know what to do next
At Wahoo, GPS bike computers can be paired with a number of third party Bluetooth devices to add extra layers of data. We have one general flow for our device companion app on IOS/Android.
For Supersapiens, all device pairing is in the Supersapiens IOS app — the device won’t work without that. We have to trust that the user is coming to the companion app after they do set-up elsewhere. We can only handle our own.
A user can either pair a Supersapiens device in the companion app or on the GPS bike computer. My job was to design both of these experiences.
Pair via companion app
Pairing this way provides only baseline connectivity. By pairing via the companion app, the bike computer is aware of the sensor but does not have the new compatible fields. User needs guidance to set up further.
With Bluetooth on…
Find unsaved sensors nearby
Tap to pair a sensor
Confirm via OS prompt to save sensor
Next steps
Tell the user where to go next (Pages)
Pair via GPS bike computer
Via bike computer, sensor pairing can automatically add base GLUCOSE field (current Glucose level) to workout page.
Menu -> Add sensor
Hold next to sensor (search…)
Save/pair to ELEMNT?
Add GLUCOSE to pages?
Sensor saved & present in menu
Sensor details page
Sensor outputs
Glucose measurements
Glucose value
Abott Libre Biosensor is able to capture and report integers between 55-200 (mg/dL).
It also reports unknown, warming up, and terminated.
Fields on Wahoo need to reflect this range of integers (and only these integers), and “error” value. I chose n/a as we do with other sensors.
Glucose arrow
The biosensor also sends a trending . These are depicted in:
Rising quickly, rising, stable, falling, falling quickly
On a Wahoo bike computer…
Design decisions
General field titles
Arrow glyph: I sourced this one from somewhere in the Wahoo ecosystem (our smart watch)
Arrows changed to generally match glyph weight in our num char library
Arrows tilted at 45 degrees to match Supersapiens behavior
Setting up glucose fields
Pages - fields setup
The companion app already has a system in place for selecting fields to display on the bike computer
My role was to figure out where these fields would be organized within the whole and how many fields were included with this sensor.
Current glucose ( -> )
The field that Supersapiens asked for. Current glucose value (mg/dL) plus trending arrow.
Average glucose
Could be a useful data point, especially for interval-based training.
Min and max glucose
Could be a useful data point for tracking highs and lows during a workout, not just current value.
Pages
Replace a field on a page via the chevron icon
Select category
Categories from A—Z. Fields located under ‘Glucose’
Available Glucose fields
4 available Glucose fields; current (with arrow), average, min, and max
Learnings & Impact
I have hopes that this integration does a few things.
I hope once this integration goes live, it offers Wahoo options to Supersapiens users and vice versa! Right now Wahoo’s biggest competitor, Garmin, is the only brand integrating with Supersapiens. Wahoo needs this novel feature and more integrations down the road.
I also hope that actual Diabetics are able to use this feature to monitor their glucose levels — not just elite athletes.