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Life Fitness Innovation Lab

A sandbox environment in River North where prototype fitness products could be tested on a best-in-class network—the platform behind “Smart Gym in a Box”

3Connected station types
1Best-in-class network
1Innovation lab
0Vendor lock-in
The brief

Answering the digital-first competition

Life Fitness faced competitive pressure from digital-first fitness companies such as Peloton and Mirror. Its products and gym environments needed to modernise to stay competitive

Enlyt built a sandbox environment wherein prototype products could be tested on a best-in-class network—an lab that invited vendor collaboration and innovation partnerships rather than closing the platform off

Scope at a glance
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Design and engineering of the lab network
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Hardware installation across equipment stations
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Weightlifting, treadmill and pull-up stations networked
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Systems integration across prototype devices
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Open environment for vendor collaboration
Before & after

From isolated equipment to a connected floor

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BeforeStandalone machines,
no shared network, no data
After · EnlytEvery station on one network,
prototypes testable end to end
Results

What the owner got

1“Smart Gym in a Box” platform
3Station types connected
1Partner, design to integration
0Proprietary lock-in

"The platform lets Life Fitness products interface across diverse gym facilities while delivering a personalised customer experience."

Project summary · Life Fitness, River North Chicago
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