Prototype of IoT-Based Timing Gate System for Sports Application

The Internet of Things (IoT) now plays an important role in sports especially in tracking athlete’s development. IoT offers limitless opportunities to monitor athlete’s growth by creating personalized measuring instrument for athletes. In sports, track and field routine, protocol as well as teaching events is one of the areas that could benefit from IoT. Speed and agility training for sport requires a variety of training approaches, much as strength and power training does. A few approaches can be used to measure speed for athletes, including timing gate. However, the cost of developing a timing gate system is on the high side, hence there is a need to develop a cost-effective timing gate that is reliable and serve the same purpose. The development of timing gate device is used in this study to assess and enhance all aspects of athletic training, including speed, acceleration, responsiveness, power, and elevation. The prototype of the timing gate system is successfully developed by combining hardware and software. This project seeks to improve the architecture of a smart timing gate system for sports applications by utilizing ESP32 Wi-Fi module as the microcontroller and infrared sensors as input to achieve high accuracy. All data are transferred to Blynk apps and later displayed on LCD. This paper outlines the design and execution of the timing gate system application in sports.