Sports Projectile Sensor Wireless Data Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sports apparatuses are inadequate in analyzing the movement of projectiles during sports events, failing to provide comprehensive statistical analysis of trajectories and player performance.
Innovation Solution
A sports apparatus equipped with sensors, a wireless interface, and a mobile device that receives and analyzes data signals from projectiles, using software to determine motion characteristics and provide detailed analysis of trajectories, including passage through goal structures and impacts with objects, while reducing data transmission and conserving power.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sensor signals from projectiles are continuously transmitted and analyzed, then comprehensive statistical analysis of trajectories and performance is improved, but energy consumption and data transmission load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-defining categories of motion characteristics (passage through goal structure, motion after shot, impact with object) and their corresponding sensor signal patterns before the sporting event occurs. During the event, the processor compares sensor signals against these pre-established patterns to quickly determine motion characteristics, avoiding the need for complex real-time analysis and reducing both energy consumption and computational load while maintaining comprehensive analysis capability.
2Measurement precision
If detailed analysis of motion characteristics is performed, then statistical information accuracy is improved, but processing time and computational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the analysis process into distinct phases: (1) collection of sensor signals, (2) comparison against pre-defined motion characteristic categories, and (3) determination of specific motion types. This segmentation allows the processor to efficiently evaluate sensor data against established patterns rather than performing complex real-time calculations, thereby maintaining high accuracy in trajectory analysis while significantly reducing processing time during the sporting event.
3Quantity of substance
If continuous monitoring and analysis of projectile movement is implemented, then completeness of statistical data is improved, but device complexity and data management requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and focuses only on the essential motion characteristics that are relevant to statistical analysis (passage through goal structure, motion after shot, impact with object) rather than continuously processing all possible sensor data. By filtering and extracting only the meaningful information based on pre-defined categories, the system reduces data management complexity and storage requirements while maintaining complete and accurate statistical records of the sporting event.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables more comprehensive analysis of projectile movements, enhancing the assessment and recording of sports performance, and allowing for real-time sharing of results through social networks.
Implementation Method 1
sensors included in the one or more projectiles... sensor signals indicative of movements of the one or more projects
Implementation Method 2
wireless interface disposed within the sport projectile for communicating sampled data signals from the sensor
Data Source
AI summary
A sports apparatus for monitoring movement of a sport projectile includes a sensor and a wireless interface disposed within the sport projectile for communicating sampled data signals from the sensor, a portable communication device in wireless communication with the wireless sensor for receiving sampled data signals from the wireless sensor, the sampled data signals indicative of a motion of the sport projectile. The portable communication device includes a controller having a memory including programming instructions that when executed by the processor cause the controller to detect a sensor signal from the wireless interface, determine a motion characteristic of the sport projectile from the motion characteristic from the sensor signal, and determine if the motion characteristic is passage of the sports projectile through a goal structure, motion of the sports projectile after a shot or an impact of the sport projectile with an object.