Internet of Things for Sports (IoTSport): An architectural framework for sports and recreational activity

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new frontier where scientists are currently experimenting with fascinating new ideas and items. Along with health-care and wellness, sports and recreational activities constitutes one of the most rapidly growing areas of personal and consumer-oriented Internet of Things technologies. This area of research is in its nascent stage of development and has been investigated by none till date. Though few companies have started working in this area, the methodology while manufacturing their products lack in standard architectural framework. Despite of huge market expectations, this filed of research lags far behind than other sectors of IoT. This literature investigates how sports and recreational activities can be augmented through novel services based on standard architecture of emerging IoT infrastructures. This paper envisages the Internet of Things for Sports (IoTSport) as the novel and state of the art framework which is capable to cater the needs of persuasion of current sports culture in a smart and handy way. Moreover, IoT for sports and recreational activities provide a new domain of research that includes several of the critical challenges which need to be taken care of. It is skeptical to the fact that the research output from this work would surely affect other domains such as health and rehabilitation in near future.