A solution to play -safe- inclusive soccer!

A young man with brown hair and rectangular glasses smiling to the camera. He is wearing a blue sweater and sitting on an electrical wheelchair.

About Jérôme

Jérôme Rousseau, 25 years old, currently president of the Novosports association. I have a motor disability and more precisely an incomplete tetraplegia linked to a neonatal suffering. I have a Master's degree in leisure and sports event management and I have also worked in the entertainment industry as an entertainer, assistant director in leisure centres and finally as a trainer.

A sentence that determines me: "Alone we go faster, together we go further".


Challenge

Playing football together, whether you have a disability or not, requires thoughtfulness and attention to safety. The challenge of the Hackathon will be to find a technology that can support the referee in his decision. To go into more detail, when a person in an electric wheelchair kicks the ball, only the person in the opposing team who is in an electric wheelchair can recover it. If the ball is between a person in a manual wheelchair and a person in a power wheelchair, the advantage will be given to the person who reacts fastest to the ball. If there is a danger, i.e. a standing person is too close to a person in an electric wheelchair or a person in a manual wheelchair, the technology would assist in this decision. The aim is to make the game easier and avoid accidents!

 
 

Solution

The team decided to build sensors communicating via WiFi with each other, that will equip each player during the game to prevent any collision.

 

The team is testing the prototype. In the first part to the video, a woman is sitting on a chair facing the wall and holding a a board composed of multiple electric wires. A man is walking towards her and we can hear a beeping sound. When the man gets closer to the chair, the beeping speed increases.