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Andrés Martínez Moreno, student of the Degree in Telecommunication Systems Engineering of the Catholic University of Murcia, has obtained the third place in the Liberalization Awards with his Final Degree Project called 'Smart Medicine Ball'

The graduate in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from the Catholic University of Murcia, Andrés Martínez, has achieved the third place at the national level in the Liberalization of Telecommunications Awards.

The student has highlighted the importance of this award: "It is not the first place, but it is a way to compensate the effort that takes all the work, both in recent months and throughout the four years at the University" .

"The fear that a career is difficult does not mean that you can not achieve your own goals." Studying Teleco has helped me achieve important goals "are the words of the graduate who defends the future of Telecommunications.

With twenty-one years, Andrés was selected to develop a Final Degree Project that, due to its interest and quality, has resulted in a patent, which he has developed in collaboration with his professors from Teleco, Rafael Berenguer and Rafael Melendreras, deputy director and vice-dean of the Degree in Telecommunication Systems Engineering of the UCAM, and with Pedro Emilio Alcaraz, director of the High Performance Sports Research Center (CIARD).

The student had a goal beyond getting an enrollment in the project;

apply for the Telecommunications Liberalization Awards attended by 41 schools throughout Spain and in which about 150 candidates have been presented.

The objective of the project was to develop an intelligent system that would instantly measure the launching power of a medicine ball, an instrument widely used for training by many professional and amateur athletes.

This idea was proposed by the CIARD to the Degree in Telecommunication Engineering of the UCAM, who took the witness of its implementation and development.

The solution finally developed consisted of introducing a sensor-type accelerometer into a medicine ball, similar to the one already incorporated by most smartphone-type phones, in order to collect the launch acceleration data.

This is connected to a small processor that, by means of mathematical approximations, calculates the speed and the launching power.

This data is sent to a mobile device that a posteriori processes them to analyze the user's performance.

"Athletes today train by level of power when they have a number of pitches, the level of it falls and it is no good to keep training, so what the athlete does is rest or wait for the next session to see if it produces more power".

This summarizes Andrés Martínez the purpose of the medicine ball in the training of the athlete.

For its part, the research team wants to contrast this hypothesis with reality: "We are now developing an investigation to carry out a study with athletes and validate the accuracy of the training method developed specifically for the smart ball."

Source: UCAM