By Liu Yi
Scanning yourself in front of the big screen before doing fitness, you can track your physical condition in the whole process of exercise, have your own fitness ranking and carry out real-time PK with your friends. On September 15, the first community smart path in Shanghai was completed in Hongfuli Phase III, Rainbow Bay Residential Community. Different from the ordinary fitness path, it has a smart brain.
The smart path, which is 330 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, is a part of the reconstruction project of citizens' smart fitness court of Rainbow Bay. After face recognition in front of the interactive screen at the starting point, the relevant data of exercise, including speed and heart rate, will be recorded in real time. After the exercise, citizens can browse the data in time on the large screen, and get the fitness guide, weather conditions and other convenient information, as well as a sport ranking list. According to the staff, citizens can also use bluetooth to connect the large screen’s smart system and mobile phone terminal before physical exercise on the smart path, so as to automatically record their own sports data and view them on the mobile phone. Through the whole process of data tracking, the system can make scientific analysis and feedback on each citizen’s fitness conditions.
The multi-functional column beside the smart path is also a highlight of this smart transformation. This multi-functional column will use face recognition technology to capture facial information, update the movement status of citizens in real time, and analyze the action track and calculate the number and direction of passenger flow by collecting height information and using algorithms, to make the trail management more convenient and efficient. It is a new attempt to combine the smart path with big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies. Considering the uncertain factors of citizens on the path, there is also SOS alarm button and voice broadcasting function on the column to ensure that all kinds of sudden situations can be found and handled in time, so as to make citizens participate in physical exercise more scientifically and safely.
In addition to the smart path, the transformation of the whole smart fitness court is full of intelligence. During the construction of the citizen's smart fitness court, the public leisure square in the center of the community is planned to be three fitness areas for the youth, the middle-aged and the elderly, so as to cover the whole age and the whole population. The products including the smart path, the track chessboard and the smart racing car, are a new breakthrough of smart fitness, which will bring different fitness experience to the citizens.
The track chessboard, which inlays the chess pieces on the track located in the youth fitness area, promotes the elderly to consciously carry out finger joint activities, supplemented by mental activities in the game process, so as to complete hand-brain linkage. It has a good preventive effect on Alzheimer's disease and other elderly diseases. The smart racing car, which can adjust relevant data such as resistance or speed, is convenient for the elderly to choose the exercise mode according to their own situation. Meanwhile, citizens' exercise data can be exchanged in the whole city. They can use their speeds to PK with others’ in real time, so as to more intuitively learn their exercise level and physical condition.
It is learnt that there were problems with the original supporting fitness facilities in Hongfuli Community, such as unreasonable site layout, scattered installation and potential hazards of fitness facilities. Most of the residents in the community were people who moved over after the old area’s reform of the North Bund and Hongzhen Old Street, and the proportion of the elderly population was relatively high. Therefore, the renewal and upgrading of fitness facilities in Rainbow Bay Area has always been the focus of the work of the sub-district and Hongkou District Sports Bureau. Considering the comprehensive factors such as environment, population and supporting facilities, the bureau finally decided to build a citizen's smart fitness court suitable for all ages, and took Hongfuli as the first attempt of the smart path in the residential area. Mr. Bai, an official of the construction of the project, revealed that in the future, with the continuous application and development of intelligence in mass sports, it would go into the homes of ordinary people to benefit the whole population and cover all functions, so as to comprehensively improve the life quality of citizens’ exercise.
In 2021, the bureau has been continuously promoting practical projects for the people, by newly building and reconstructing 4 public fitness paths, 20 smart fitness courts and 4 public multi-functional sports courts. By promoting the upgrading of construction projects, it reflects the technicalization and intellectualization and continuously improve the sense of satisfaction, happiness and acquisition of the public.