How much force a leg exerts when kicking a soccer ball would seem to be a straightforward question that could be easily answered in today’s tech-laden world, but collecting that data has been complicated by the lack of adequate sensors in the marketplace.
Standard accelerometers max out at a force of 16 g, says Vicon life sciences product manager Kim Duffy, and that doesn’t even begin to gauge the full power of an adult’s kick.
The sensor, she says, “basically flat-lines.”
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Finding a way to solving this problem went into the development of Blue Trident, the first inertial sensor released by Vicon since its acquisition of IMeasureU in 2017.