Despite increasing calls to improve athletic safety technology athletics, only the most popular sports (e.g. American football) have seen significant progress. This project implements Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices on a bicycle helmet to collect critical data for assessing sustained head trauma. We employed a three-axis accelerometer as well as force-sensitive resistors on an off-the-shelf Bontrager Rally WaveCel helmet to determine the G-force of impacts and pinpoint its location. Our findings emphasize the pressing need for additional research in the athletic safety technology industry with respect to cycling.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Tames, Donovan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 49481
• E-project-030422-144855

Advisor

• Bhatia, Mehul A.
• Pahlavan, Kaveh

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-03-04

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved