Stina Lundgren Högbom, our Global Relationship Manager has been interview by Sports Tech Hub by London Sports about top trends and startsup in sports tech 2021.
Top trends and starts up in sports tech 2021
STRN – Sports tech Research Network (one of our partners) has made an infographic about the important knowledge around extra oxygen that Oxelerate has. One of the startups that recieved support from Health and Sports Technology Initiative.
To read more Hyperoxia research converted into a device | Sports Tech Research Network (strn.co)
Health & Sports technology Initative hase invited the American professor and auothor Rayvon Fouché that will inspire us about sports tech from an equality and sustainability perspective.
Before Rayvon’s lecture there will be a panel discussion highlighting the same questions from a Swedish perspective.
19:00-19:30 Panel discussion about equality and sustainability from a Swedish perspective
Stina Lundgren Högbom – Moderator
Katrine Marçal – Swedish writer and journalist, with a new book; Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
Sofia B Karlsson – Swedish Sports Confederation. Expert in gender, equality and inclusion in sports
19:30-20:30 Lecture with Rayvon Fouche – Gamechanger, The Techno Scientific Revolution in Sports
Sign up for Rayvon Fouché – gamechanger, the Techno Scientific Revolution in Sports
Rayvon Fouché – Gamechanger, The Techno Scientific Revolution in Sports (simplesignup.se)
12th of april 17:30 – 18:45 CES
In Sweden, there are many institutions at leading universities that conduct research in different aspects of Sports Technology. The purpose of these workshops is for researchers to describe and translate their research into practically relevant knowledge for the Sports Industry. Through these workshops, we want to start to intertwine the collective knowledge, and build the Swedish Network for Sports Technology and Analytics.
This is the first out of four seminars that will take place during 2021. The purpose of these seminars is for researchers to describe and translate their research into practically relevant knowledge for the Sports Industry. Through these seminars, we want to start to intertwine the collective knowledge, and build the Swedish Network for Sports Technology and Analytics.
Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and Health & Sports Technology Initiative are happy to host the first out of four seminars in the Swedish Network for Sports Tech and Analytics during 2021.
Programme:
17:30-17:35 Welcome and introduction – Stina Lundgren Högbom, moderator
17:35-18:00
Swedish Network for Sports tech and Analytics – Mikael Mattsson, project manager
18:00-18:15
Technical development for better sports – Tobias Larsson, professor
18:15-18:25
Oxelerate – Oskar Frånberg, docent
18:00-18:40 Towards integrating and visualizing multimodal biometric data/Analyzing data using machine learning – Javier Gonzales Huerta, docent, Martin Bolt, docent
18:40-18:45 Summary РStina Lundgren H̦gbom and Mikael Mattson
The seminar will be held digitally. Sign up is mandatory.
Sign up here: https://simplesignup.se/private_event/178575/f6404c5b99
Health & Sports Technology Initiative is listed in European Sportstech report 2021 Reports – SportsTechX
During the last semester has Health & Sports Technology Initiative involved a team of students from BTH to design a new gadget. Here you can se the video of their presentation
Below you can read an interview with the students
1. Tell us short about your project
Background
The project task is to devise a measurement that can help improve health. It has a wide approach to it and can be implemented in many different areas such as sports performance, patients in hospitals, geriatric care, etc.
The use of smartwatches has grown rapidly since 2010. There are many different companies such as Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, and Garmin. The usage area seems to get broader and broader as the watches get more features added to them. The project has a collaboration with the Sports & Health institute at Blekinge institute of technology.
Idea – The idea in the beginning was to use a Medical PPG testbed called Bloodlight developed by CodeThink. The PPG uses light to shine into the skin and reads the reflection of it. It currently has both red/infra-red and green LEDs on it. It runs on an open-source code and is available to everyone. Because the testbed was hard to work with, the team decided to use Arduino with added sensors instead to speed up the workflow.
Plan– The plan of the project was to follow the course workshops and use the methods and tools presented in the course “Extreme PSS Innovation”, because this project is part of that course.
Solution – The solution consists of a physical watch with sensors and a screen that is meant to be used by kids in the age between 4-8 years old, an app that summarizes and analyzes data collected by the “watch” and displays it to the parent in a way that makes it easy for the parent to take action.
2. What was the most challenging in this project?
The most challenging part of this project was to develop an app that would have all the functionality that we wanted, mostly because no one in the group has much experience in programming. This is why the app is simplified and mostly used for testing purposes.
3. How did you come up with the idea of a gadget for sun and air pollution protection?
By analyzing the market and seeing where we could find a “blue ocean”, going back and forth between different ideas that came up in the ideation phase, and because the team thought that this was an interesting segment to look deeper into.
4. What will happen with your project now?
It’s unclear at the moment what will happen with the project, but it is possible that we will keep working on it after this semester if we see an interest.
Health & Sports Technologuy Initiative at BTH have got funds fromt CIF- centrum för idrottsforskning to manage the Network for Sports Technology and Analytics and will start to set up three seminars for coaches in different places in Sweden.
The network also gives great oppurtunities to collaborate between Swedish universities in sport Technologies and analytics to share ideas and develop innovation to the sports.
Stina Lundgren Högbom, Global relationship manager at Health & sports Technology Initiative works as an expert in the broadcast “Framtiden runt hörnet”
Great succes when we hosted pitchday for companies in Health & Sports technology with experts from:
Mikael Mattson researcher at Blekinge Institute of Technology and project manager of Health & Sports Technology Initiative speaks in swedish radio Vetenskapsradion P1 about a new scientific report regarding, which time during the day you have best effect of your training.
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=406&artikel=7573508
