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Taiwan Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association
The research raise two concepts, virtual jogger and
jogger real-time position. These two items receives
the highest scores from the happy elderly sports
group.
The concept of virtual jogger is supposed in
personal sports training, the reference method still
works no matter using image projection or index
points shown on the competition tracks marking
the real-time distance between refernecial person
and the player. Also it is designed to instantly
show the accelerating, decelerating speed or
any other actions of the player. The real-time
poisition can be setup with multiple refernecial
persons in a visual way so as to make athlets
to have more fun. Certainly the technology is
still not efficient enough. Every sports person is
equipped with such a device and knows the real-
time positions of opponents. These devices must
provide online services and in the open field,
the online method is mainly subject to the long
communication technology, such as LTE. However
once the wearable devices together with online
function, the prices would be high and battery
consumption would be another test. Then, the
mature technology of lower power WLAN will be
the key to observe the above-mentioned concept
development.
2. Sports injury sensor
The current wearable devices can senor heart rate and
moving position. All these are related to sports quality
and sports records. But for the Happy Aging sports
group, when one is getting older, there is a larger chance
to encounter sports injuries. Even they care for scores
but they won’t risk life for better sports performance,
particularly knee joints, ankle joints, waist spines or feet
pressure all the vulnerable body parts. Therefore, how
to sense improper pressure point and give them instant
warning is the most needed function for the Happy Aging
sports group.
To sense physical moves is to prevent users from
sport injuries. So there is no need of highly accurate
quantitative data. It only requires to visually indicate
the real-time sports pressure state on the important
body parts and to warn users in time. Intelligent apparel,
intelligent leg cap, intelligent tach and so on equipped
with partial pressure sensor and sport physiological data,
they can provide the visual warning function.
3. Crowdsourcing of sport product and service
The third difficulty for the Happy Aging sports group is
the choice of sport product and service. It does not mean
that they cannot find them online. What is questionable
is that the comments by sport experts or amateurs raise
two doubts: one doubt is if their comment is credible? Are
they advertisements for sport companies or replacement