Tracking Enabled Hockey Puck Testing

In order to ensure accuracy and efficacy with Drive Hockey’s proprietary tracking enabled hockey pucks, the BCIT intern would perform physical, performance, and signal processing testing. The objective is to produce a set of baseline lab test data for us to compare our tracking enabled puck to an official puck (or possibly two different brands) in order to produce a report that:

a. identifies physical inconsistencies / tolerances of our puck versus regular pucks that we would need to address through R&D
b. identifies conditions where the physical properties cannot be maintained and where/how the internal circuitry would fail to better understand ability to withstand reasonable hockey game play conditions
c. identifies the types of movements and/or conditions by which the signal processing and location identification algorithm accuracy is adversely affected
d. identifies areas and methods to improve tracking enabled puck characteristics in order to increase accuracy and effectiveness of data collection and align performance under reasonable hockey game play conditions to standard hockey pucks

A report that summarizes the lab test results would be beneficial to Drive Hockey Analytics for presenting to hockey leagues, associations, team, and other user groups so to build confidence in the accuracy and effectiveness of the data collection and performance under reasonable

Faculty Supervisor:

Nigel Halsted

Student:

Partner:

Drive Hockey Analytics

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Program: