This abstract briefs about a development of inexpensive device called smart shoe which is designed to assist user in knowing how much distance they have covered and how much calories they have burnt while walking or running. Proposed project is implementable for finding distance covered and total amount of calories burnt by using force sensitivity resistor. Advantages of such shoes include extensibility and low maintenance. The idea was to develop shoes that anyone can wear.

Statistics:

Distance walked by a typical human being per day - 3.5 miles - 7500 steps.

Average weight of typical human being - 179 lb.

No. of calories burnt by each person =7500*0.063=472.5 calories.

Population of the world - 7.4 billion.

Total no. of calories burnt - 7.4 billion*472.5=3.4 trillion calories/day.

A huge amount of 3.4 trillion calories of energy is being burnt by people just while walking. This nasty number of calories of energy being burnt everyday motivated me to do this project, with which energy can be generated and used to power a few electronic boards and a mobile just while walking. The aim of energy harvesting is to capture free energy, available without costs, from the environment. Advanced techniques allow us to capture, store and to manage natural energy, converting it into electrical energy. From the point of view of wearable electronic devices, the most efficient energy harvesting system for capturing energy is to use devices such as SMART SHOES. This device makes a use of piezo electric sensors for generating the power while walking is stored into the 3.7,1000mah lipo battery through charging circuit. A piezoelectric plate is a device that uses the piezoelectric effect to measure pressure, acceleration, strain or force by converting them to an electrical charge. This system track the person health and it can send the alert SMS in panic situations also it can send the SMS in every 10 minutes. SMS consist of travel distance and calories. This system tracks the location of the person using GPS.

Features:

• Generate electricity while walking using piezo sensors.
• Piezo electric energy is stored in to the battery.
• Foots counting.
• Health Tacker.
• Location tracker.
• Distraction free travel.
• Automatic rerouting and alerts.

The major building blocks of this project are:

• 7v,1000mah battery Power Supply.
• Arduino nano.
• Piezo sensor.
• Charging circuit.
• Global Positioning System (GPS).
• GSM.
• Buttons.

Software’s Used:

1. Arduino IDE studio compiler for dumping program.
2. Express SCH for Circuit design.

Technology used:

• GSM technology.
• GPS technology.

   

   

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