Avinox wins a Eurobike Award for taking heart rate monitoring a step further in eBikes

Avinox has received a Eurobike Award in the Digital Solutions category thanks to its new Smart Heart Rate Control System, an integrated feature in the Avinox Ride app that uses the cyclist's heart rate to automatically manage motor assistance.

Avinox wins a Eurobike Award for turning heart rate into a coach for eBike

At first glance, it may seem like a familiar idea. In fact, Specialized already allowed assistance to be adjusted based on heart rate. However, Avinox's proposal goes much further and turns this physiological data into the central axis of the entire user experience.

An eBike that adapts effort to the cyclist's goals

The Smart Heart Rate Control System allows linking a Bluetooth heart rate monitor to the Avinox ecosystem and defining a target heart rate zone. From there, the system automatically modifies the level of assistance to keep the user within that range.

If the heart rate increases above the set level, the motor increases its assistance to reduce physical effort. Conversely, if the heart rate falls below the target, assistance decreases so that the cyclist has to work harder.

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Up to this point, the idea may seem relatively simple, but Avinox has developed the function with specific use scenarios in mind.

According to the company, the system allows configuring rides aimed at specific health, training, or performance goals. These include maintaining a safe exercise intensity, promoting fat burning, controlling effort in users with certain cardiovascular limitations, or improving aerobic capacity through work in specific training zones.

For example, the software can help maintain an intensity between 50% and 85% of maximum heart rate for safe exercise, work between 60% and 70% to maximize fat oxidation, or precisely control sessions aimed at improving cardiovascular efficiency.

In practice, the bike stops being limited to offering Eco, Trail, or Turbo modes to become a tool that automatically adapts assistance to the physical goal the user pursues on each ride.

An integrated coach within the bike

This is precisely the aspect that has caught the attention of the Eurobike Awards jury. In their official evaluation, the judges highlighted that the system goes beyond conventional assistance modes and noted that power management based on real-time physiological signals could represent a significant change in how electric bikes are used.

The difference is subtle but important. Traditional systems react to what the bike does: power applied to the pedals, torque, cadence, or speed. The Avinox system also reacts to how the cyclist's body is responding.

That’s why the company presents this function not just as a help for pedaling, but as a tool capable of turning any ride into a structured training or exercise session.

Specialized was already doing it, but Avinox has greatly expanded the concept

The award has also sparked debate because heart rate-based assistance control is not a completely new concept.

Specialized has been offering a similar function within its Mission Control and MasterMind ecosystems for years. Its Turbo bikes can connect to a heart rate strap and automatically adjust assistance to keep the user within a certain heart rate zone.

However, Avinox's approach is much more ambitious.

While in Specialized this function was part of the assistance management tools, Avinox has made it a central feature of its digital platform. It does not just react to a heart rate figure, but structures the experience around specific health, performance, or effort control goals.

In other words, Specialized used heart rate as just another variable to manage the motor. Avinox uses it as a starting point to define how the entire ride should develop.

It is precisely this evolution of the concept that likely explains the recognition received at Eurobike. Rather than awarding a completely new technology, the jury seems to have valued how Avinox has turned an existing function into a much more accessible, understandable, and useful tool for the end user.

Software gains prominence in eBikes

This award also reflects an increasingly evident trend in the industry. After years in which the technological battle was fought over power, weight, or autonomy, manufacturers are beginning to seek differentiation through software and user experience.

Avinox had already shown this direction with its advanced connectivity features and disruptive proposals like the MG Concept with integrated shifting in the motor. Now it adds a new recognition that demonstrates that the next big evolution of eBikes may not only be in hardware but in the ability to interpret cyclist data and adapt the bike to their goals in real time.