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Smart insole
eSteps Smart Insole
A thin cushioned insole with a motion sensor inside. It goes into the shoes you already own, needs no calibration, and runs about two weeks between charges.
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eSteps Smart Insole
From a clinician
“Unlike a classic test of two or three minutes, it lets me analyse a very large amount of data: days, weeks, even months.”
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Lift out the liner that came with the shoe and drop the insole in its place. Both feet, once.
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It wakes when you move and sleeps when you stop. Nothing to start, nothing to remember, about two weeks between charges.
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Open the app and the day is already there, with every walk test you have taken.
Walk test
6-minute walk
- steps
- 625
- steps a minute
- 104
- left/right difference
- 4.5%
| Each foot | Left | Right |
|---|---|---|
| Strides | 308 | 308 |
| Stride time | 1.15 s | 1.15 s |
| Stance time | 0.70 s | 0.70 s |
| Swing time | 0.45 s | 0.45 s |
Free sample report
This is what you get after one walk.
A real 6-minute walk test, recorded with the insole and laid out the way the app shows it.
- Two pages, as a PDF
- Every number explained in plain words
- One email. No newsletter unless you tick the box
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Specs
The details.
The three that decide it, then the table for everything else.
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About two weeks a charge
Motion-activated sleep, so it rests when you do.
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EU 36 to 46, sold as a pair
Both feet, because the point is the difference between them.
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Nothing to calibrate
Out of the box it is already measuring. No custom footwear either.
- Charging
- Micro-USB, about two hours to full
- Connectivity
- Bluetooth LE 5.0, about 10 m to your phone
- Weight
- About 100 g for the pair, sensors included
- Materials
- Cushioned sponge insole, cut away under the arch where the sensor sits
- Sizing, in full
- EU 36–46, US Men 4–14, US Women 5.5–15.5
- In the box
- The pair, a dual USB charging cable, a quick start guide and the app
What you are buying
It is not a step counter.
A fitness tracker counts the walking you did. This one is interested in what the walking looked like, which is the part that changes first.
Read the evidenceWhere it comes from
This came out of a lab, not a gadget shop.
The academic root is why the insole measures what it measures, and why the record below is published rather than claimed.
- Where it started
- Spun out of the RECORD biomechanics lab at the University of Bologna. The insole exists because a lab needed data a clinic visit could not give it.
- What it measures
- Timing of each step: stride time, stance and swing, cadence and the difference between left and right. It does not measure step length, speed or pressure.
- Studied on people
- Approved by the Bologna Bioethics Committee (C.d.A. 1778/2020) and run in a multiple sclerosis pilot at Sant’Orsola.
- Your data
- GDPR-ready architecture and a HIPAA-compatible pipeline. Nothing leaves your phone until you choose to send it.
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Before you buy.
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EU 36 to 46. It replaces the liner already in the shoe, so if a liner comes out, this goes in.
It is a cushioned insole first. The sensor sits flat under the arch, where your foot does not press.
A pair. Both feet, because the thing worth knowing is the difference between them.
You have thirty days from delivery to return it or exchange it for another size.
Only if you send it. Nothing leaves your phone until you choose to share it.
Ready when you are.
Free with any pair of insoles. Nothing to set up beyond putting them in your shoes.