About

GYMetrix^® was created through Edinburgh University's Business Incubator Scheme EPIS, and attached to their School of Informatics with funding support from Scottish Enterprise.

Edinburgh University is ranked in the World's Top 20, Top 5 within the UK and the best university in Scotland.

The School of Informatics was awarded a 5*A rating in the UK Government's HEFCE, the only computer science department in the country to achieve this highest possible rating. The School is generally considered world-leading, standing with the foremost U.S. institutes.

Founder and Managing Director Rory McGown was working as a management consultant, part of the job involved capacity planning for services within the National Health Service NHS in the U.K.

Capacity planning involved looking at the demand put on health services and calculating the number of staff, and skill levels required, so capacity would match demand. It occurred to him one day, whilst frustrated in a gym that obviously did not have enough of one type of gym equipment, that the same techniques used to help health services match their capacity with demand could be used by gyms to better fit their gyms capacity to match their customer demand.

He contacted Edinburgh University's Business Incubator Scheme which helps link academics within the University with commercial applications and GYMetrix was born.

Throughout the development of GYMetrix's services, the University of the West of Scotland has been very helpful with the design of the signal conditioners and is assisting with improvements to the data loggers and transmitters.