Quantifying Sprinting Profiles with Wrist-worn Technology

This research project aims to make the Force-Velocity and Power-Velocity Sprinting Profiles more accessible to all athletes. These profiles measure an athlete’s explosive force and speed abilities and can help coaches and medical professionals develop a training program that is tailored to an athlete’s needs. Currently, only elite athletes have access to this tool, but this project seeks to evaluate the validity of using a sport watch with GPS to measure these profiles. By developing signal processing methods to evaluate these profiles accurately, this project will make them available to any athlete who wants to track their training and fatigue status. This will be a significant benefit to the partner organization by democratizing access to this valuable tool.

Currently, Sport Insight is primarily a service company. For the company to expand, one major objective is to utilize its extensive experience in product development for clients to develop and market its own line of products. With the wearable technology market growing rapidly and predicted to grow to over $1.6 billion over the next five years, this project will be a first step for Sport Insight in developing products for this market, with additional steps planned for the near future.

Faculty Supervisor:

Bill Wannop

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Partner:

Sport Insight Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

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