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This week, the top sports grounds of the BUT Sports Activities Centre are used by Austrian students of Sports Technology from UAS Technikum Wien. As part of their annual projects, they measure the technical aspects of sports technologies that they have designed themselves.
The sports oval is an ideal platform for evaluating the effect of a cooling vest on athletes on hot summer days. A student of the Sport technology programme of the Vienna UAS, hung with sensory components in a special vest with water capsules, runs fully along the outer path of the oval. In the shadows near the stands, meanwhile, her two classmates bow their heads to an acquisition device that senses temperatures in the runner's ear and body. At first glance, this is what the measurement of one of the year projects looks like, on which Viennese students have been working all year and are testing it in the final in Brno. There are several similar student groups at CESA sports venues these days.
The third group of students concentrates around the athlete with special glasses. "We measure the fogging effect of glasses in different environmental conditions," foreign students explain. With a respirator on his face, the examiner in the interior has no need for fog on the glasses. In the exterior, the situation is already more demanding and due to fogging, the student being measured has to complete several rounds of intensive running on an oval. Meanwhile, in the shadow of the stands, the fourth group is preparing a special system to assess the traction of the soles of sports shoes on various types of surfaces. In addition to electronics, you can also see a piece of rope connecting the athlete's foot with a force gauge.