Pro-Social Gym Smart Lock

Inspiration

We're part of a few strength and fitness communities in South Florida centered at local gyms/barbell clubs, and we're extremely frustrated with the carelessness and heartlessness with which community members are reacting to the pandemic. Folks continue to priotize their gainz over the survival of their communities' most vulnerable!

What can we do?

Lets work to improve this via a brief public health experiment. Our hope is that this behavior can be corrected if the gym-goers had a better understanding of the existing data and forecasting models. We will test this hypothesis with an experiment where we grant users access to their gyms only upon completion of a short training on pro-social behaviors that limit transmission of coronavirus.

The local gyms we'll focus on use key code locks to offer 24-hour access to their users, but these offer a number of restrictions. We will replace these locks with smart locks that will connect to a Learning Management System. The LMS will host training content and quizzes and will create smart lock keys unique to each user once the user has completed a brief training.

Why will they use it?

Updating the keys for existing key code locks is manual and tedious, and often the locks use a single, universal key. Our hope is that the updated feature set of the smart lock we will be deploying will add further incentive to a gym-owner to adopt our system. Additionally, we can address the typical gym issue of enforcing gym etiquette by adding additional training to a gym's LMS.

How can we build it?

The components for this project all exist off the shelf. We’re using an Igloohome IGM1 smart mortise lock to prototype, and we're researching LMS modules/platforms that are easy to spin up and to script interactivity with our smart lock.

Who can contribute?

This project will need help assembling content, branding the LMS to match local gyms, and deploying to local gym's websites. We'd also appreciate some help deploying the LMS itself and scripting out its connectivity to the smart lock, but I predict that part will be the easiest =)

Join us?