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A project log for Sensor Skin Slip Suit

Simple Scheme for Sophisticated Sensing of Stuff in Speedy Sports such as Sled Hockey, Skiing, and Sparring

jhrjhr 08/21/2014 at 01:360 Comments

Inevitably we want the software to provide real time, actionable data to the user. Instead of simply presenting a wall of information to the user and having them decipher it to make decisions we would like to go a step further and trigger alerts. These alerts will show the area that potentially needs to be inspected for damages.

An example of this would be having the pressure sensor receive pressure past a certain threshold and duration which would trigger an alert that the area has been hit. Another example would be the accelerometer moving a certain way and then coming to a complete halt which would trigger a collision in a specific area that should be acted upon. Ultimately we would like the software to report that Joe broke his leg roughly the same time that Joe realizes that something is wrong.

Creating these actionable alerts will take quite a bit of testing and tweaking to determine what is useful and minimizing false positives/negatives. All of this useful data can be stored for later uses and crunched later to provide other performance reporting.

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