A Self-Powered Wearable Motion Sensor for Monitoring Volleyball Skill and Building Big Sports Data

• Published in: Biosensors (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 2; p. 60
• Main Authors: Liu, Weijie, Long, Zhihe, Yang, Guangyou, Xing, Lili
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 24-01-2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Arm; Athletes; big sports data; Deformation; Electric fields; Electric Power Supplies; Electrodes; Flexibility; Humans; Monitoring; Monitoring, Physiologic; Motion; motion monitoring; Motion sensors; Movement; Physiology; Piezoelectricity; Power supply; Real time; self-powered; Sensors; Silicones; Spiking; Sports; Volleyball; Wearable Electronic Devices; wearable electronics; Wearable technology; motion monitoring; self-powered; big sports data; wearable electronics
• ISSN: 2079-6374; 2079-6374
• DOI: 10.3390/bios12020060

A novel self-powered wearable motion sensor for monitoring the spiking gesture of volleyball athletes has been manufactured from piezoelectric PVDF film. The PVDF film can convert body mechanical energy into electricity through the piezoelectric effect, and the flexible device can be conformably attached on the hand or arm. The sensor can work independently without power supply and actively output piezoelectric signals as the sports information. The sensor can detect the tiny and fine motion of spiking movement in playing volleyball, reflecting the skill. Additionally, the sensor can also real-time monitor the pulse changes and language during a volleyball match. The self-powered sensors can link to a wireless transmitter for uploading the sports information and building big sports data. This work can provoke a new direction for real-time sports monitoring and promote the development of big sports data.