Programme: Mechanical Engineering

Course: MT2573 – TRANSFORMATIVE PSS INNOVATION

Corporate partner: ARK56 & Health and Sports Technology Initiative

Challenge: The main challenge for the team was how to bring more value to the ARK56 application and make it reach out to more groups of people. As ARK56 covers many areas that can be worked on, it was decided that the focus would be on how to get users to use the app more and make more exposure for ARK56. 

Solution: The solution the team provided is a digital outdoor gym that helps and motivates the user to keep training. The solution consists of two parts, one is the physical product and the other one is the digital product. The physical prototype works in such a way, with the help of sensors and a central station that are located at a specific outdoor gym. The elektronics can count the reps the user is making and then summarize this data in form of calories burned and time to rest. This information will be sent to the user profile in the app which will visualize the training progress for the user. In the app the user can also see the training progress over time, monthly calorie burned and highscore over other users.

Impact: The impact of this solution is that it makes more value for the user but also for ARK56. This in the form of higher exposure of ARK56, but also a nice way to motivate users to train more often. This solution will also make people train more outside which has a social impact on human health. By letting the user interact with the location and track his or she’s training progress the motivation will increase and the training experience will be more fun.

Prototypes: The physical prototype consists of a pole with a hub that shows different kinds of information. The pole itself is made of wood which makes it more environmentally friendly. Inside the pole some electronics are mounted which are a raspberry-Pi and a ipad. The rasperry are with help of the sensors mounted on the training machines, counting the reaps and show information on the ipad etc. The raspberry is also sending the data to a database for the app, where the information is visualized for the user in the form of graphs and text.

Quotes from sponsor/partner: The partner company was satisfied with the solution and saw potential in further work. They thought it would be interesting to let other students in other courses work further with the solution to make the prototype more robust and more user friendly. For example let the students on a programming course develop the app to a more functional product etc. They also had some interest to look further on our idé because it will make them think in another direction which will lead them to come up with further improvements with ARK56. They also said that it would be interesting if some kind of collaboration could be made with other applications, for example the training app in smartwatches.

Project team:

Isak Lidén, Mechanical Engineering, class of 2017. Phone: 072-209 02 73

Oscar Johansson, Mechanical Engineering, class of 2017. Phone: 076-880 03 73

Mohammad Al-jabiri, Mechanical Engineering, class of 2017. Phone: 076-010 99 07

Rasmus Linell, Mechanical Engineering, class of 2017. Phone: 072-301 01 86