Patent US10172406

Data collecting head guard systems and methods thereof
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US10172406

1. A data collection system, comprising (7) (2)

a head guard comprising: a multi-layered sidewall, wherein the multi-layered sidewall forms a dome, wherein the dome defines a circular opening for a head of a wearer and a plurality of sensor ports, and wherein the multi-layered sidewall comprises: a stretchable fabric layer, and

a padding layer; and

a removable cover system selectably attachable to the multi-layered sidewall, wherein the removable cover system has an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein a portion of the inner surface of the removable cover system is attachable to a portion of the dome to maintain the position of the removable cover system relative to the dome; and

a sensory input and communications system, wherein at least a portion of the sensory input and communications system is positioned between the cover system and the multi-layered sidewall, the sensory input and communications systems comprises: a microcontroller,

a plurality of sensors that are each in communication with the microcontroller, wherein each of the plurality of sensors are removably received into a respective one of the plurality of sensors ports,

a communications unit, and

a local indicator, wherein the microcontroller is configured to activate the local indicator upon a detected impact in excess of a predefined magnitude, wherein the local indicator comprises any of a visual device and an audio device; and

an activity monitoring computing system to wirelessly receive data collected by the head guard, the activity monitoring computing system comprising at least one processor and non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed by a processor cause the processor to: for the data received from the head guard, determine athlete information associated with the data based on the source of the data;

group data based on one or more factors selected from the group of factors comprising sport, age, and geography; and

generate aggregated data reporting based on the grouped data.

2. The data collection system of claim 1, comprising a plurality of head guards, wherein one of the plurality of head guards is a first head guard and another of the plurality of head guards is a second head guard, and wherein subsequent to an impact event between the first head guard and the second head guard detected by the activity monitoring computing system, the processor is to generate an impact report based on a first player associated with the first head guard and a second player associated with the second head guard. (0)

3. The data collection system of claim 1, wherein the communications unit is configured to wirelessly transmit sensor data to an associated mobile communications device. (2) (0)

6. The data collection system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of sensors is attached to either or both of the stretchable fabric layer and the padding layer. (0)

7. The data collection system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors comprises one or more of an acceleration sensor, a heat sensor, and an impact sensor. (0)

8. The data collection system of claim 1, wherein the communications unit is to transmit data collected by the sensor to a remote computing device. (3) (0)

12. The data collection system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors are water resistant. (0)

13. The data collection system of claim 1, wherein the communications unit comprises one or more antennas for data transmission over one or more of an long term evolution (LTE) network, a Wi-Fi network, a Bluetooth network, a ZigBee network, and a radio frequency network. (0)

14. A data collection system, comprising (2) (2)

a plurality of head guards, wherein each of the plurality of head guards comprises: a multi-layered sidewall, wherein the multi-layered sidewall forms a dome, wherein the dome defines a circular opening for a head of a wearer and a plurality of sensor ports,

a removable cover system selectably attachable to the multi-layered sidewall, and

a communications unit, and

an activity monitoring computing system to wirelessly receive data collected by each of the plurality of head guards, the activity monitoring computing system comprising at least one processor and non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed by a processor cause the processor to: generate aggregated data reporting based on the grouped data.

15. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein the plurality of head guards comprises a first head guard and a second head guard, and wherein subsequent to an impact event detected by the activity monitoring computing system, the processor is to generate an impact report. (0)

16. The data collection system of claim 14, wherein each of the communications unit is configured to wirelessly transmit sensor data to an associated mobile communications device. (2) (0)

19. A data collection system, comprising (1) (2)

a head guard comprising: a multi-layered sidewall, wherein the multi-layered sidewall defines a circular opening for a head of a wearer;

a removable cover system selectably attachable to the multi-layered sidewall; and

a sensory input and communications system, wherein the sensory input and communications systems comprises: a microcontroller,

a plurality of sensors that are each in communication with the microcontroller, and

a communications unit; and

an activity monitoring computing system to wirelessly receive data collected by the head guard, the activity monitoring computing system comprising at least one processor and non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon which when executed by a processor cause the processor to: group data based on one or more factors selected from the group of factors comprising sport, age, and geography; and

generate aggregated data reporting based on the grouped data.

20. The data collection system of claim 19, wherein the communications unit is configured to wirelessly transmit sensor data to an associated mobile communications device and wherein the activity monitoring computing system is to wirelessly receive sensor data from the associated mobile communications device. (0)

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