Flexoo, Germany
Data acquisition becomes more and more important in the context sports. Statistics and data on the performance of athletes allows for better understanding of the conditions of their victory, or defeat. It serves increasingly for specific training purposes as well as a valuable source of information for people commenting on sports on media.
Flexoo proposes a combination of a pressure sensing mat placed on the floor of the boxing ring, and a pressure sensing array mounted inside the boxing glove. This combination allows for the first time to relate the strenght and position of the impact with the footwork and body position, momentum of the athlete.
This solution provides important insights on the interplay between footwork and punch quality (strength, momentum, position). It will serve for training to specifically correct wrong footwork and for commenting the results of the fight: number of steps, pressure, strength, speed, and impact position.
Functionality
The demonstrator comprises two devices, a pressure sensing mat placed on the floor of the boxing ring and a pressure sensing stripe embedded in the boxing glove.
The sensing mat comprises our state of the art crosstalkless readout electronics and a printed sensing foil, able to detect pressure distribution on the floor of the boxing ring using an array of ca 10000 resisitve pressure sensors.
The sensing stripe comprises our state of the art single pixel readout electronics and a printed sensing foil, able to detect pressure distribution on glove using an array of ca 10 resisitve pressure sensors. This device sends the data measured from each sensor individually via Bluetooth.
A dedicated software compiles the data from both devices to allow further data visualization and processing.
Benefits of the Project
The motivation is to digitalize sports and boxing in particular, which was not sufficiently implemented yet for commercial use.
Printed electronics and in particular the combination of our large scale pressure sening arrays and embedded IoT devices allows such an implementation for the first time.
Advantages:
- high quality data for training and commenting purposes
- correlation and causality link between footwork and punch impact
- relatively easy implementation
- scalabe solution
Target Industry
- Sports
- Internet of Things
- Consumer Electronics
- Media
Organic & Printed Components
- Conductive path
- Printed dielectric / insulator
- Printed sensor
Classical Components
- Readout electronics (PMU)
- Readout electronics (IoT)
- Computer