Description du projet
Améliorer les performances et la sécurité dans le sport grâce à l’intelligence artificielle
Le ski et la course à pied sont des sports physiquement exigeants qui présentent un risque élevé de blessures. Utilisant l’IA au profit des athlètes, le projet Racefox, financé par l’UE, entend mettre au point un coach d’entraînement personnel novateur. La combinaison d’un dispositif portable spécial fixé sur la poitrine, d’une application pour smartphone et d’une série d’algorithmes d’IA permettra d’analyser la position du corps de l’athlète dans l’espace et de lui fournir un retour d’information en temps réel sur la manière d’améliorer sa technique de ski ou de course et de prévenir les blessures. Les données de mouvement qui seront utilisées ont été collectées lors de l’entraînement et sur la base des performances d’individus réels lors de courses et de compétitions. Cet outil pratique est susceptible de contribuer au développement de trousses d’entraînement et de récupération en cas de blessures.
Objectif
Wememove is a Swedish SME led by Magnus Jonsson, a successful serial entrepreneur, and Christer Norström, a PhD and a former CEO of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Wememove has designed and brought to TRL6 Racefox—an artificial intelligence-based personal training coach for cross-country skiers and runners. Wememove has won funding from the Swedish Innovation Agency Vinnova to conduct a feasibility study and was placed on the NyTeknik 33 list of most innovative Swedish companies in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Racefox is a combination of a special wearable device worn across the chest, a smartphone app and a series of AI algorithms that analyze the position of an athlete’s body in space and give real-time feedback on how to improve his/her skiing or running technique and prevent injuries. Racefox is backed up by large amounts of motion data collected both from individuals training and performing in races & competitions.
Racefox will disrupt the personal coaching market by introducing a high-quality, low-price digital AI coach.
By September 2018 Wememove has sold 4.300 Racefox devices and became the first official digital coach of Vasaloppet—the biggest cross-country skiing race in the world featuring 70,000 participants annually. Wememove has secured a series of strategic partnerships with competitions and races globally to develop dedicated training packs. Wememove is also working with Capio—a large medical organization—to create injury recovery packs to be used by sports practitioners.
For this 24-month Phase 2 project Wememove is requesting a €1.85M contribution to bring Racefox to market, develop additional training functionality and complete injury prevention modules, validate it in several major cross-country skiing and running competitions and prepare for the large-scale market introduction.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
111 36 Stockholm
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L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.