An IoT-aware Architecture to improve Safety in Sports Environments
Abstract
The introduction of Internet of Things enabling technologies into the sport and recreational activities domain provide an interesting research challenge. Their adoption could significantly improve the sport experience and also the safety level of team sports. Despite this, only few attempts have been done to demonstrate the benefits provided by use of IoT technologies in sport environments. To fill this gap, this paper propose an IoT-aware Sport System based on the jointly use of different innovative technologies and standards. By exploiting the potentialities offered by an ultra-low-power Hybrid Sensing Network (HSN), composed of 6LoWPAN nodes integrating UHF RFID functionalities, the system is able to collect, in real time, both environmental parameters and players’ physiological data. Sensed data are then delivered to a Cloud platform where a monitoring application makes them easily accessible via REST Web Services. A simple proof of concept has demonstrated the appropriateness of the proposed solution.
Keywords
Internet of Things, Sport, Cloud, wireless sensor network
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L. Catarinucci, D. De Donno, L. Mainetti, L. Patrono, M. Stefanizzi and L. Tarricone, "An IoT-aware Architecture to improve Safety in Sports Environments," in Journal of Communications Software and Systems, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 44-52, June 2017, doi: 10.24138/jcomss.v13i2.372
@article{catarinucci2017awarearchitecture,
author = {Luca Catarinucci and Danilo De Donno and Luca Mainetti and Luigi Patrono and Maria Laura Stefanizzi and Luciano Tarricone},
title = {An IoT-aware Architecture to improve Safety in Sports Environments},
journal = {Journal of Communications Software and Systems},
month = {6},
year = {2017},
volume = {13},
number = {2},
pages = {44--52},
doi = {10.24138/jcomss.v13i2.372},
url = {https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v13i2.372}
}