The project’s competitive advantage is its integration of an IMU with a graphene-based insole, enabling use across sports and everyday activities. It delivers real-time monitoring of gait, pressure, and balance with instant feedback, helping improve performance and prevent injuries by detecting movement irregularities and optimising load distribution. It also provides personalised, data-driven insights through a companion app for training and progress tracking, with seamless wireless connectivity for easy smartphone integration.

There is a growing need for solutions that can improve performance, comfort, and injury prevention during sports, fitness, and recreational activities. Many existing footwear and training approaches do not provide real-time feedback or personalised insights, which limits users’ ability to optimise performance and reduce the risk of injury. This is particularly challenging for both professional athletes and casual users who require better support to monitor and improve their physical activity effectively.

The project introduces a Smart Insole, a wearable device that integrates advanced technology with a user-centric design to enhance performance, comfort, and injury prevention. It provides real-time feedback and insights during sports, fitness, and recreational activities, enabling users to monitor and improve their movement and performance more effectively. This solution supports a wide range of users, from professional athletes to casual fitness enthusiasts, in optimising training and reducing injury risk.

The innovation of the project is the development of a Smart Insole, a wearable device that integrates advanced technology with a user-centric design to deliver real-time feedback on performance, comfort, and injury risk during sports, fitness, and recreational activities. It addresses the lack of personalised, real-time insights in existing footwear and training solutions, enabling users to better monitor and optimise their movement. This supports improved performance, enhanced comfort, and reduced injury risk for a wide range of users, from professional athletes to casual fitness enthusiasts.