Internet of Things Based Smart Shoe Fitness Tracker Prototype

Abstract

In the modern era wearable smart technologies are highly popular and liked by the people of this generation. Smart shoe being one of the smart technologies, hypermarkets like Nike, Puma, Adidas, Xiaomi, keep launching various types of smart shoes for different purposes. Fitness being a mandatory factor in an individual’s lifestyle, people’s attention is drawn towards smart technologies meant to improve their fitness and monitor their workout routine on an everyday basis. However, there are few noticeable limitations that hinders people to not own a pair for themselves. In this paper, Internet of Things based smart shoe fitness tracker prototype has been developed considering the factors of cost, efficiency and sustainable energy. The prototype mimics the purpose of smart shoe fitness tracker where the fitness variable and health parameters are measured according to the user’s motion. The smart shoe mobile application facilitates as the user interface to monitor their day-to-day vitals and activity at real time using Internet of things. Integrating the concept of sustainable energy and energy harvesting from alternative energy resources using piezoelectric sensors to activate the tracker during fitness performance. As a result, this study has developed a smart shoe prototype that compensates the limitations of the existing smart shoes and motivates people to take up fitness as a part of everyday lifestyle and progressing towards a better future.