Sometimes vertical force is enough.

If your only objective is to measure jump height, peak vertical force or another small set of established vertical metrics and compare them over time, a simple 1D force plate may be the more rational purchase.

We are not interested in convincing somebody to buy six-axis measurement when they genuinely have no use for the additional information.

But even a predominantly vertical movement does not occur only vertically.

During a jump or landing, the athlete can produce anterior-posterior and mediolateral forces, shift pressure across the foot, load the left and right sides differently and generate ground-reaction moments. Two athletes can produce a similar vertical result while arriving there through different movement strategies.

F1-3D lets you keep the familiar vertical metrics while preserving that additional information.

Horizontal forces can reveal braking, propulsion and directional compensation. Mediolateral forces can show how force is controlled side to side. Center of Pressure adds information about where the resultant ground reaction acts beneath the foot. The measured moments provide additional information about how forces act around the force plate coordinate system.

These are ground-reaction quantities—not direct measurements of muscle forces or joint torques—but together they provide a richer description of the interaction between the person and the ground.

For gait, balance, directional movement, landing, rehabilitation and many sport-specific movements, this difference becomes much more important because horizontal force, lateral force, moments and Center of Pressure are no longer peripheral to the movement—they are part of the phenomenon you are trying to understand.

So the question is not:

“Do I need six axes for every test?”

Probably not. The better question is:

“If I am buying a force measurement system today, do I want the other five axes available when they become relevant?”

We expect most improvements after the Pilot to happen in software and firmware, not through replacing the mechanical platform.

That is why every Founding 20 system includes 24 months of software and firmware updates. New calculations, improved workflows, additional protocols and refinements to Movetrics Studio can reach systems already in the field.

We designed the F1-3D hardware for long service life and intensive testing. We do not expect Founding 20 customers to receive a system that suddenly becomes mechanically obsolete when commercial launch begins.

There is also an important protection for the early partners.

If the Pilot reveals an unforeseen fundamental hardware deficiency that requires major mechanical redesign to achieve the capability we sold to you, we will not leave the Founding 20 behind with an inadequate first-generation system.

In that exceptional case, we will replace the affected Pilot hardware with the corrected system at no additional hardware cost.

We do not expect that to happen. The hardware is already working. But early partners should not carry a product-development risk that properly belongs to us.

Very little, once the initial workflow is established.

We deliberately designed F1-3D so that ordinary operation does not require a biomechanics course, a specialist technician or weeks of product training.

Before delivery, we confirm the installation environment, computer, surface, connections and intended protocols. On Day 1, we install and commission the system with you, run the relevant workflows and train the responsible operator using your actual use case.

Our target is simple:

After Day 1, your operator should be able to use F1-3D independently.

Movetrics Studio is being designed around that principle. The user should not need to understand the entire underlying measurement chain in order to perform a repeatable test correctly.

For anyone who wants to go deeper, we maintain detailed documentation covering installation, measurement, protocols, troubleshooting and interpretation using written instructions, screenshots, photographs, flowcharts and videos.

And if your trained operator still needs to call us repeatedly to perform an ordinary measurement, we do not regard that as a training failure.

We regard it as a product problem.

During the Pilot we will find the cause—whether software, documentation, workflow or hardware—and remove the friction.

Yes.

Your measurements are your data.

Movetrics Studio lets you export measurement data as CSV, including access to the underlying force and moment channels. This allows you to perform your own analysis in MATLAB, Python, R or other environments instead of depending exclusively on Movetrics calculations.

The supplied Force Data Terminal also provides analog output and synchronization capabilities for Fx, Fy, Fz, Mx, My and Mz, allowing F1-3D to become part of a broader measurement setup.

Integration with systems including Noraxon is currently being implemented and tested. We distinguish between an interface technically being possible and an integration that we have actually verified, and will document supported integrations as they are completed.

The core measurement workflow can operate locally without an internet connection.

You can measure, record, review measurements and export raw data locally through Movetrics Studio.

Cloud processing is currently used for functionality that requires the more extensive Movetrics computation and reporting pipeline, including advanced PDF report generation, certain automated biomechanical calculations and phase-detection processes, as well as the AI service.

You are not required to surrender control of the underlying measurement data in exchange for using the hardware.

Our philosophy is straightforward:

Movetrics should make your data more useful—not make your data inaccessible without Movetrics.

The Founding 20 receive something later customers will not receive in the same way: direct access, individual implementation support, influence over the workflows being built and the opportunity to shape F1-3D around real use.

But joining early should not mean blindly accepting product risk.

That is why we manufacture the Pilot systems after the order is confirmed rather than filling a warehouse before we know what our first users actually need.

Your payment starts production of your system. Components are allocated, the system is manufactured, assembled, tested and prepared for your configuration.

With milestone production, you pay €7,495 excl. VAT to start production and the remaining €7,495 excl. VAT only before shipment.

Before that second payment, we demonstrate your completed system live. This can be done remotely by video or in person with us in Duisburg.

You therefore do not make the final payment merely on the promise that your system exists.

During the Pilot you receive direct support and a personal contact at Movetrics. Faulty hardware is repaired or replaced according to the applicable warranty terms.

We also distinguish between two very different situations.

If we fail to deliver an agreed essential capability, the system is materially defective, or it cannot fulfill an agreed use case documented in your order, we take responsibility for that. The corresponding remedy, replacement or return commitment is defined in the commercial agreement.

If the system performs as agreed but you later decide that six-axis force measurement is simply not useful for your organization, that is different. The Founding 20 is not an unrestricted trial where a fully functioning made-to-order system can be returned because the buyer changes their mind.

That is exactly why we have the application process.

We would rather discover before the order that F1-3D is not right for you than sell you a system you should never have bought.

The Pilot is designed to reduce technical risk through close cooperation—not to hide it behind sales language.