Intelligent sports, a must for physical education in the new era!

In school, sports have become the main activity for children before, during and after class. They show unlimited enthusiasm and vitality by participating in various sports. The school has become an intelligent and interesting sports park where children can not only exercise their bodies but also develop various sports skills.

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, we are entering a new era where the collaborative work, cross-border integration, and co-construction and sharing between humans and machines have become a reality. This trend is also driving education towards modernization, digitization, and intelligence. In the youth sports of the new era, we focus on teaching students sports skills, practicing diligently, and participating in competitions frequently, so as to promote the improvement of students' physical fitness and healthy growth.

Especially in recent years, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the national "double reduction" policy, children's learning and lifestyles have changed greatly, and youth sports activities have entered a new era of online and offline integration. The application of the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence has provided various possibilities for student sports. The emergence of smart sports is not only a demand for education, but also a demand for physical education teachers to teach, and even more so a demand for students to learn independently and cooperatively.

01 What is Smart Sports?

Smart sports is a trend that applies new generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things, mobile Internet and 5G communication technologies to the field of sports. It uses sensors and Internet of Things connections to monitor and perceive the user's sports behavior, combined with big data algorithms such as cloud computing, sports data and management data, to provide students and teachers with a basis for improving sports training, and provide intelligent feedback and decision support.

In addition, smart sports also comprehensively improve the quality of sports services by establishing digital, networked and intelligent sports spaces, sports modes and sports ecology to better meet people's personalized and diversified sports needs. In various fields of school sports, especially in teaching, training and sunshine sports activities, the application effect of smart sports is very significant.

02 Smart sports

The creation of smart education demonstration zones has promoted the development of smart sports. With the help of technologies such as AI, smart IoT, big data and wearable devices, students' physical exercise and school sports have undergone tremendous changes. In recent years, many places across the country have begun to promote the construction of smart playgrounds, building a new model of campus sports that is intelligent, interesting and full-scenario; at the same time, physical education teaching is strengthened, and intelligent analysis of student conditions is used to achieve personalized AI physical exercise homework.

In addition, taking smart skipping as the entry point, various smart sports activities are carried out through the combination of online and offline, forming a smart sports education pattern with unique characteristics in each school.

03 Better empower children to grow up healthily

Physical health problems among primary and secondary school students have become a common phenomenon across the country, such as overweight and myopia. Therefore, it is crucial to establish an intelligent physical health monitoring system. Such a system can achieve a deep integration of fitness and health through real-time, efficient and personalized participation in sports through virtual reality technology.

At the same time, by analyzing students' physical health data and changing trends, a physical health monitoring report can be generated, which will encourage schools to pay attention to health education and improve students' physical and mental health.

At present, many primary and secondary schools have begun to use information technologies such as the Internet of Things, smart wearable devices (such as smart skipping ropes and smart sports bracelets, etc.), artificial intelligence and big data to innovate evaluation methods and establish an intelligent management and monitoring system that can be quantified, recorded, supervised, analyzable and evaluable.

These systems help young people acquire health knowledge and sports skills, guide them to go to the sun and sports stadiums, change their lifestyles, and develop exercise habits.

Ⅰ “Church”

Smart sports provide students with a scientific way of autonomous (cooperative) exercise, solving the problem of lack of guidance. Students can receive instructions through smart devices, practice movements, and analyze whether their movements are correct through video playback. Smart bracelets can also monitor students' heart rates during exercise.

At the same time, the intelligent sports service platform can analyze and evaluate students' sports health status through scientific models, cultivate students' scientific exercise awareness, and assist teachers in analyzing students' physical exercise skills and providing personalized teaching guidance by intelligently collecting students' exercise data.

Smart sports ensure the scientific nature of students' independent exercise, enabling students to learn professional knowledge, master standardized technical movements, and get feedback on the results of practice, thereby improving the effectiveness of independent exercise.

Ⅱ “Practice Hard”

The comprehensive promotion of physical education courses can meet the different interests and characteristics of students, so that every student can actively participate in sports and master relevant skills. Smart sports is an important implementation method of physical education courses. During the physical education teaching process, students wear smart sports bracelets to monitor data (such as heart rate, pace, etc.) to understand the physical condition of students during exercise in real time, adjust the exercise intensity in time, and ensure exercise safety.

At the same time, it is also convenient for physical education teachers to understand the differences in students' sports in a timely manner, adjust training plans scientifically, and carry out targeted sports training at different levels. Artificial intelligence technology can also conduct standardized evaluations of sports movements (such as track and field, long jump, pull-ups, sit-ups, etc.). For example, in the sit-up teaching, by showing the movement trajectory of the shoulder and back in contact with the mat, rapid imaging, prompting wrong postures on the screen, and showing the correct movements, to help students correct them.

Smart sports provides students with accurate analysis and scientific guidance for participating in sports, improving the efficiency of students' technical learning and practice.

III. “Fusion”

Schools can implement a time-limited exercise check-in plan through the smart sports platform. Students need to report their exercise data on the platform every day, and the backend will summarize and feedback the data. The sports team and class teacher will remind parents to urge students to exercise based on the class participation rate.

For example, for rope skipping, the school has developed a variety of check-in modes, such as free jump, timed jump, and counted jump in cooperative learning. In addition, the platform also supports a variety of sports check-in and homework modes, and will give rankings and corresponding electronic medals to encourage students based on their performance.

Through the motion analysis curves and voice reports on the computer or mobile phone screen, students can clearly understand their own exercise situation. This combination of sports and technology further stimulates students' enthusiasm for sports and also witnesses their growth.

Smart sports can also help schools establish a data center for students' physical fitness and health, which is responsible for daily physical fitness monitoring and the collection and reporting of health data. These data will be intelligently analyzed to form a comprehensive and multi-dimensional physical fitness and health report covering regions, schools, grades, classes and individuals.

The implementation of smart sports requires a complete system engineering. By building a cloud platform, connecting various devices such as smart skipping ropes and sports bracelets, collecting students' sports physical health data, and displaying and interacting in real time in various ways, it can effectively feedback the sports status. Smart sports require the active participation and research of school teachers and students, the support of parents, the smart devices provided by the enterprise platform, and the technical support of mobile Internet.

By deeply integrating artificial intelligence and sports, we can inspire students' love for sports, make sports concepts deeply rooted in students' hearts, make sports their interest and need, thereby cultivating good exercise habits and providing support for the healthy growth of children.