Compared to the animal world, for humans Sport is much more than just fun or a game. Athletes, coaches, game spectators: Network and Information Security Dissertation, GCD, Ireland

Compared to the animal world, for humans Sport is much more than just fun or a game. Athletes, coaches, game spectators, and sportsmen’s parents, are always keen on preparation, dedication, commitment, and concentration on the game. Sport is not just a game but also becomes a career pathway for most sportsmen. So, an athlete always takes game and training seriously.

For a young athlete, sport is a way of achieving physical and mental well-being and cultivating good leadership qualities, teamwork, and communication. However, no person is born with these qualities and no one is born perfect. To achieve personal goals, a sportsman always pushes their body limits to the next level. Under competitive pressure, a sportsman goes through heavy training and sometimes overtraining.

According to Hunter et al, overtraining may lead to some serious physical injuries, high blood pressure, reduced body oxygen level, dizziness, and sudden death. According to Chertoff’s website article, a normal person’s heart rate at the resting stage is normally between 60 bpm and 80 bpm. However, some sportsmen have a lower heart rate, which is as low as 30 bpm to 40 bpm. Overall, heavy physical training is always dangerous for sportsmen’s physical health. The article has been medically reviewed by Angela M. Bell.

Most of the time, heavy training is carried out before sports competitions or matches. Heavy training sometimes cannot be handled by the human body and can lead to sudden brain and body shut down. In such a scenario, the people around the athlete may take some time in decision-making, thus losing precious time that can cost the athlete’s life. It can happen on a competition day, or during training time, and cannot be predicted.

To prepare and deal with such emergency situations, proposed for development in the current document is a specially designed Android application, which will continuously monitor during training the vital signs of a sportsman for abnormalities, by interfacing with a smartwatch wearable device in real-time. The smartwatch should be worn by the athlete while training, as well as throughout the day, so the application can collect heart rates not only at training but at rest as well. Whenever the application detects any abnormal heart rate, it will send a warning message to the athlete’s training coach and a designated medical practitioner, who need to have the application installed with a user account created under the Trainer/Medical practitioner category.

The trainer can review the athlete’s collected data and send it to Paramedics in case of abnormality detected. The collected medical report should be able to be shared in various file formats. While doing heavy exercise, emergency situations may occur, such as sportsmen starting to feel dizzy and suddenly falling on the ground or having a dramatic change in heart rates before a heart attack occurs. The application needs to send an emergency alert to
the trainer, Medical doctor, and ambulance services. Because the alert is sent before the incident occurs, an ambulance can come at the right time and place and save an athlete’s life.