Project Category: Electrical
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About our project
The motive of FitTrac is to make fitness trackers more accessible as in the current market are catered to professionals which are very expensive which leaves beginner athletes at a disadvantage to acquiring such tools. The task was to design a fitness tracker that monitors the heart rate, speed, and direction of players where the data be stored on an SD card. This data is valuable to the coach as it monitors each player’s athletic progression and overall can improve game strategy. The budget is around 100 Canadian dollars. This will be tackled in two parts: The Wearable tracker and the app to read the data. The Tracker will be embedded in a vest and have a battery life of around 6 hours. The SD card will store the data and then transferred to an excel file to be revised by the coach later at any time, although at this stage we only develop 1 prototype tracker the app can show all the trackers at once, it will display the received and calculated information regarding the chosen player. The prototype vest will also be water-resistant to ensure optimal operation in humid conditions to be used in any condition.
Meet our team members
Adeeb is currently finishing up his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary. During his years at University of Calgary, he volunteered as a mentor for hands-on robotics education for children ages 10 -17 and was promoted to an executive member in Schulich Community Robotics Program. Adeeb shows interest in leadership positions and electronic communication systems. Adeeb is skilled in 3D modelling and has experience with microprocessors.
Yasir is a compassionate and hardworking 4th year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Calgary. Yasir was born in Pakistan and moved to Canada when he was 6, his passion for technology led him to the academic path he is currently on. Yasir is the president of the University of Calgary Robotics Association, a club which runs STEM courses for all university students, where he spends most of his free time doing what he enjoys. Yasir has been working in retail since he was 15 which has allowed him to build great communication skills, become charismatic, and has learnt to work with a team effectively. Yasir is a quick learner and can accomplish most things he sets his mind to.
Sami is currently an undergraduate student in his fourth year at the University of Calgary pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Over the past year Sami was a Media Executive for the 3D printing club at the University of Calgary where he was responsible for presentations, club events and promoting the club across campus. He has various work experience and is a co-owner of an auto-body business.He is passionate in the automotive field and enjoys expanding his knowledge and skills.
Outside of work, he is passionate about working on cars and is currently learning how to TIG weld which will help his business by minimizing the need to outsource for repairs. His favorite pastime activity is playing video games. He also has an active lifestyle that involves exercising and going out with friends.
Mustafa is currently completing his final year of Electrical Engineering at University of Calgary. Having both a passion for engineering and entrepreneurship, he hopes he can one day utilize both these skills in his career one day. Aside from having undertaken engineering projects, such as a hearing test device which allows you to test a person’s hearing within minutes for under $50, Mustafa has started and is currently running two businesses.
Mustafa is also a huge car enthusiast. He is passionate about racing and Formula 1 and hopes to take his future cars to the track one day. The majority of his week is spent studying for school, managing his businesses, working out, training Muay Thai, and watching a lot of car videos. He hopes to use his philosophy of hard work paired with a strong mind and body to achieve all his future goals.
Youssef is an undergraduate student in his last year at the university of Calgary department of electrical engineering, Youssef finished his one year internship last september he worked in a company that built customized hybrid systems for the marine industry and before that he had a summer position were he worked as an electrical engineer on an off-shore rig located at the red sea, youssef has some experience with 3D printing and is a member of the Rotaract u of c club and he is a big petrolhead.
Youssef loves to learn about new technologies and new inventions, playing video games is also one of his favorite free time activities besides reading articles about cars and playing sports.
Shehab is completing his 4th year of Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has worked as a Learning Assistant, where he provided tutoring support to 1st-year students. In addition to that, he was a summer research student under the guidance of the electromagnetics group at UofC. There, he researched the effect of S-parameters on received microwave signals. Currently, Previously he was a hardware implementation student with UofC, where he is looking at designing image sensors.
Outside of engineering, Shehab likes to play tennis and likes to swim. He also enjoys volunteering at AARCS (Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society).
Details about our design
HOW OUR DESIGN ADDRESSES PRACTICAL ISSUES
There is a lot of fitness trackers in the market but to be able to buy one with good features will cost you a lot, so one of our main goals was to have a design with a low budget for production to make the device as cheap as possible to be more affordable for smaller league players and even individuals wanting to track their progress.
At the same time we wanted our design to be user friendly so It can be easily used by non-professionals and beginners wanting to track their progress regarding a they sport they are playing or even daily fitness routine and be able to have records of their results.
WHAT MAKES OUR DESIGN INNOVATIVE
What makes our design Innovative that it’s easy to use by everyone and not just professional sports players, so they keep track of their fitness records and track their progress, The enclosure is 3d printed which makes it even lighter than normal trackers and stiffer to protect the components from any unpredicted events.
It’s also easy to carry around and has a long operation period of time thanks to the battery, the device is attached to a vest which can be modified easily to fit all body types and different ages.
WHAT MAKES OUR DESIGN SOLUTION EFFECTIVE
What makes our solution effective mostly that it’s not expensive and has all the features that are important to any sports player and would like to monitor their daily fitness or sports routine without the help of professionls and be able to track the progress and be able to improve it, our Device enclosure is 3D Printed to make sure that it’s durable and as light as possible while being humid proof to withstand any hard conditions it might face.
The enclosure is attached to a vest that the player will put on so the device can even be more secured to get as accurate results as possible for the user to be able to maintain his progress and improvements relying on accurate information.
HOW WE VALIDATED OUR DESIGN SOLUTION
We validated our design by trying it out by ourselves, we came up with a series of tests that puts the product under all tough conditions to make sure it will withstand all of them without breaking or the electrical components being destroyed because of humidity, the tests that the device went through and passed successfully were a stationary drop test, a nonstationary drop test as the device will mostly be used while moving and the last test was a humidity test.
After making sure that it passed all these tests we tested the actual features of the device which is the main purpose of this product, one of the team members wore the device while exercising and it recorded all the heart rate, speed, and direction of him which are the features that our device offer, it was tested many times while doing different activities and all the data that we got were accurate.
FEASIBILITY OF OUR DESIGN SOLUTION
The FitTracs is currently feasible as it effectively tracks and records the data while doing any exercise or activity. The cost of our device is very low compared to other devices. However, I think we can reduce the size more by changing the device design and the cost can even be lowered than what we have right now if the device is produced in quantities, And also more features can be added to the device, plus that an app can be created so the results can be shown through it instead of using the excel file.
Partners and mentors
We want to thank the many people who helped us with this project our Sponsor From Liontek William Fru for all the support and effort he gave us throughout this project. And, Our Electrical engineering professor Abraham Fapojuwo who guided us through the process with patience and great advice.
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