Design and Implementation of an Integrated Performance Monitoring Tool for Swimming to Extract Stroke Information at Real Time

Current methods used to monitor performance for swimming do not offer real-time feedback to coaches and significantly increase post session analysis times. The aim of the research outlined in this paper is to design and implement a novel performance analysis tool to measure swimmer performance using wireless technology previously developed at Loughborough University. The Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture (CIMOSA) has been coupled with a software architecture based on object-oriented techniques to formalize and structure the development of a computer integrated real-time monitoring system. Filtering and signal-processing algorithms are applied to extract performance indicators in real time, hence allowing faster access of feedback that can be used to enhance the swimming performance during each training session.