Integrated Sports System

System

Inspiration

Our entire group has played sports their whole lives, so being able to come up with a project that allows to help make sports safer for athletes was something that we were all really excited about.

What it does

The system has two major functions. The first is the immediate injury prevention of athletes. One of the subsystems detects the body temperature of the athlete and will use auditory and visual warnings to alert the user. The other injury prevention subsystem uses an accelerometer to detect collisions at certain critical body parts. The system will notify the user if a collision was serious enough to have caused an injury. The other major function is data collection. The system will store data from sensors into text files. These text files can be manipulated with data analytics to provide useful information for sport health officials.

How we built it

The system was built an Arduino board. Three LEDs were used for visual cues to the user. A buzzer was used to create auditory cues. Two temperature probes were used to measure body temperature. A three-axis accelerometer was used to measure instantaneous acceleration values in order to detect the magnitude of collisions.

Challenges we ran into

Most of our challenges was due to our inexperience in coding with Arduino and using components on the Arduino board.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud to have learned how to utilize Arduino hardware and software. We're proud to have learned Processing in order to create text files from our sensor data. We're proud to have worked together as a team in our first hackathon to create a project that has the potential to make a meaningful difference in our society.

What we learned

We gained a mastery at using Arduino and using micro-controllers to interface with sensors. We learned how to handle tasks inherently designed for parallel processing on a single threaded processor.