Supervisor
Assoc Prof Dr Hermann Klug (hermann.klug@plus.ac.at)
Short description
During a cross country mountainbike races, trainers and technicians are available in a technical assistance zone (TAZ) to help athletes in case of troubles. The main challenge of trainers and technicians is that riders are invisible on their round course of about 4 km length. Riders show up at the TAZ very quickly. To reduce the time for reactions in case of emergencies, the system to be advanced in this MSc thesis should enable access to rider data (wearables) and bike sensor data in real-time. Based on an already setup cloud backend and a user dashboard as a frontend, this thesis should focus on capturing sensor information (heart rate, speed, cadence, power meter pedal, tyre pressure, set post position) via the Ant+ and/or Bluetooth signal on a Cubot King Kong Mini 2 cell phone. The setup should realize an immediate transfer of sensor data from the sensors via the cell phone into the cloud service and from there back to the end user devices. The latter devices usually are of smaller nature (mobile phone, tablet). Thus, dashboard development is responsive and scalable. Additionally, rider data should be stored on an SD card (128 GB) in the mobile phone (backup) and sensor data should be visible on the small smartphone attached to the handlebar of the mountainbike. An adaptable configuration of information to be displayed on tabs or single screens should be developed. Furthermore, bi-directional communication might be enabled. This could be a text message from trainers issued to the athletes and displayed on the smartphone or an SOS button for the rider to confirm challenges during the ride to the technicians in the TAZ.
References & datasets
No particular
data is required. Hardware will be provided.
Materials and methods
- Garmin chest belt (heart rate)
- Garmin speed 2 & cadence 2 sensor set
- Garmin Rally™ XC200 – power meter pedal
- QUARQ TyreWiz tire coat pressure
- USB-C to USB-A 3.0 dongle
- Ant+ dongle
- Cubot King Kong Mini 2 Rot
- SD Card (128 GB)
- A1 SIM Card incl. data package
- Google cloud service
- Open source software kits
Prerequisites/qualification
Interest in mountainbiking, solid skills with mobile developments and Android as a software platform, programming and automation of processes in the cloud, dashboard development, standards and protocols (e.g. MQTT)
Planned Start
Any time
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