El Institute of Biomechanics of Valencia (IBV) in addition to the Castilian shoe fellowship KELME accept designed a paradigm running shoe amongst an integrated device that improves grooming administration in addition to prevents injuries.
The device consists of a microelectronic criterion organization capable of gathering biomechanical parameters that characterize the runner's technique during a race. This data is wirelessly transmitted to the runner's mobile telephone in addition to a mobile telephone application provides real-time feedback, including grade of functioning in addition to suggestions to alter the running pattern or to halt running inwards illustration of detecting a high run a peril of injury.
The mobile app besides has all the additional data provided past times other commercial devices usually used past times runners such every bit pump charge per unit of measurement monitor or GPS location.
In addition, the athlete volition endure able to transfer the generated running data to a spider web portal. This portal volition generate personalised grooming plans, allow follow upwards of improvements in addition to supply recommendations inwards gild to foreclose injuries in addition to amend performance. Some of the extra contents volition include recommendations on warming-up in addition to cooling down, tips on how to amend the running technique in addition to nutrition guidelines.
Moreover, this spider web volition include spider web 2.0. functionalities allowing the user to endure inwards contact amongst other runners worldwide in addition to built in addition to part contents (running routes, footwear info, etc.)
The master copy novelty of this novel organization compared to electrical current running criterion systems for grooming is that it volition endure the commencement device to characterise the running technique from biomechanical variables and, together amongst data from the pulsometer, bring out fatigue in addition to laissez passer on real-time recommendations.
RUNSAFER Project was funded past times the Research for SMEs Call of the VII Framework Programme of the European Commission. The consortium besides included the applied scientific discipline centres IPMS-Fraunhofer (GE) in addition to EII (EST), every bit good every bit the firms NUROMEDIA (GE) in addition to DUKOSI (UK).
80 ane 1000 1000 runners inwards Europe
The actual position out of runners inwards Europe exceeds eighty million; around 36% of the European population betwixt fifteen in addition to 65 year-old.
Running has larn ane of the nigh pop sports inwards recent years. However, this sport has associated injuries that forcefulness the runner to halt in addition to lose the fitness grade achieved until recovery or fifty-fifty inwards some cases, to laissez passer on upwards all together.
Incidence of running injuries is high, since 38% of European runners endure or accept suffered a running injury in addition to betwixt 37 in addition to 56% of runners larn injured at to the lowest degree ane time each year.
RUNSAFER organization is aimed at all European runners inwards full general and, inwards particular, at those who are suffering or accept suffered running injuries inwards the final year, which agency a potential marketplace of over 37 ane 1000 1000 runners.