A
MINI PROJECT REPORT
ON
“SMART SHOES INNOVATIONS REVOLUTIONIZING
THE FUTURE OF FOOTWEAR"
SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE
AWARD OF DEGREE OF
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
(2022-24)
(Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow)
Submitted By Under the guidance of
Saurav Kumar Raj Ms. Avantika Trigunait
(MBA22155)
Batch of 2022-24
GLBAJAJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND
MANAGEMENT, GAUTAM BUDDH NAGAR, PLOT
NO.-2, KNOWLEDGE PARK 3, GREATER NOIDA.
CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY
I Saurav Kumar Raj of Batch 2022-24 is a fulltime Bonafide student of First year of MBA
Program of GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Greater Noida. I hereby certify
that this project work carried out by me at "SMART SHOES INNOVATIONS
REVOLUTIONIZING THE FUTURE OF FOOTWEAR " the report submitted in partial
fulfillment of the requirements of the program is an original work of mine under the guidance of
the faculty mentor Ms. Avantika Trigunait Mam and is not based or reproduced from any
existing work of any other person or on any earlier work undertaken at any other time or for any
other purpose, and has not been submitted anywhere else at any time
(Student's Signature)
Date: _
(Faculty Mentor's Signature)
Date:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This project is the outcome of sincere efforts, hard work and constant guidance of not only me but
a number of individuals. First and foremost, I would like to thank GL BAJAJ, GREATER
NOIDA for giving me the platform to work with such a prestigious company in the financial
sector. I am thankful to my faculty guide Ms. Avantika Trigunait for providing me help and
support throughout the Project Report period.
I owe a debt of gratitude to my faculty guide who not only gave me valuable inputs about the
industry but was a continuous source of inspiration during these months, without whom this
Project was never such a great success.
Last but not the least I would like to thank all my Faculty members, friends and family members
who have helped me directly or indirectly in the completion of the project.
SAURAV KUMAR RAJ (MBA22155)
DECLARATION
The project report on “SMART SHOES INNOVATIONS REVOLUTIONIZING THE
FUTURE OF FOOTWEAR" has been undertaken as a partial fulfillment of the requirement for
the award of the degree of Master of Business Administration of Dr. APJ AKTU, Lucknow. I
hereby declare that this Project is my original work and the analysis and findings are for academic
purposes only. This project has not been submitted by the any student earlier to any other
institution/ university.
SAURAV KUMAR RAJ (MBA22155)
ABSTRACT
The world is getting bigger and bigger, and the technology is invading the globe to
comfort the human being, and technology still seeking new products to make life
much and much easier, and we as engineers this is one of our tasks.
Every day we hear the word 'smart' in everything that the technology has produced
such like Smart phone, Smart car and Smart TV, so why not a Smart shoe ? Okay,
we are going to make a Smart shoe! Yes, it's that simple, a smart shoe that would
lead you to any place you want to go, of course by using help from the Smart
phones.
Our project would revolve about coming with a prototype for a smart shoe that
could pair with Smart phones by using Bluetooth, to reach the navigational
information through a mobile app to get these information and instruction from
Google map's database.
In a matter of fact, this smart shoe could give indications for the user of this shoe
when and where to take a turn and also the type of the turn. All these indications
would be relayed by six vibrating units (motors) placed inside the shoe in the six
directions up, down, left, right, front and back these units would take the
5
instruction
6
through a microcontroller located inside the shoe, that already would be paired
with a smart phone by Bluetooth.
So, we designed the whole project block diagram and the circuits for each section
of the diagram as a complete system. Thus, the data for navigation will be taken
from the Google's map database and processed by the mobile App and transmitted
through the Bluetooth to the microcontroller to give instructions for the vibration
units to guide the user for the desired route
7
CONTENT LIST
TITLE PAGE NO
ACKNOWLEDGMENT 2
ABSTRACT 3
INTRODUCTION 4
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 5
PRESENT SCENARIO 8
OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE 11
HOW IT WORKS 13
FEATURES 14
DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES USED IN 17
SMART SHOES
BENEFITS 19
CHALLENGES AND FUTURE 20
NOBLE CAUSE 22
KEY PLAYERS IN MARKET 23
CONCLUSION 26
8
Introduction
Our project would revolve around coming with a smart shoe prototype
Smart Shoe provides a reliable and unique way for indoor and outdoor
navigation according to the idea of haptic feedback. Distraction-free
way.
Pressure sensing unit to give accurate information about the user foot
pressure distribution while walking, jogging or running.
From measuring athletic performance to tracking fitness and evaluating
health metrics, smart shoes are here to provide personalized feedback to
users. Efforts are on to engineer traditional shoes with integrated technology
to boost comfort, convenience, and good health. Smart shoes feature insoles
that can act as a Bluetooth-connected accessory and can link activity or
position to a smartphone app. They can function as a high-tech brain. In this
article, we address the current status, challenges, and future of smart shoe
technology.
9
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
We successfully designed the circuits and the layout for Smart Shoe. Smart
Shoe provides a reliable and unique way for indoor and outdoor navigation
relying on the idea of haptic feedback. Our design also integrates detailed
pressure sensing to give accurate information about a person's feet
movements and feet pressure distribution while walking, jogging or running
With support for USB charging, this product represents a complete and
marketable final product. We believe that our product will cater to the vast
number of people who use their Smartphones for navigation, athletes and the
common masses.
1.1 Statement of problem
Smartphones have been an excellent asset for navigation in the past couple of
years and companies such as Google have come up with some really
impressive navigation solutions. Although, these Smartphones assist us with
both outdoor and indoor navigation, they still impose a restriction which is the
necessity of holding them /looking at their screens or listening to them to get
directions, also there's a lot of people don't know how to use the navigation
system in the smart phone and sometimes they get confused which way is the
left or the right. Moreover, deaf people can't hear the instructions from their
phones.
1.2 Purpose
10
We seek to overcome this challenge by proposing a novel way of how these
navigation directions are relayed to us from Smartphones using an
underappreciated wearable: the shoe. Our project would revolve around
coming up with a smart shoe prototype that could pair with Smartphones
using Bluetooth and help provide navigational information through vibration
units placed all around the shoe. In essence, these shoes could give indications
about when to take a turn, where to take a turn and the type of turn to take to
the person wearing these smart shoes.
11
WHAT ARE SMART SHOES?
A few years back did you ever think of a shoe that can efficiently track your
movements, and also evaluate the footsteps? As well as a shoe is evaluating
your walking patterns and loads of other health metrics just while you are
wearing it and performing your day-to-day activities?
Well, smart shoes are here, and these all are happening very much normally
and efficiently. Smart Shoes came with the sole agenda of giving you a better
grip over your health monitoring process.
12
A smart shoe has a tracker in it which helps you to evaluate how many steps
you have taken, which one is the most touched-down area in your feet, how
many calories did you burn, how much more you should burn in a day. Also, a
smart shoe has features like changing its color with LED strip lights, auto-
tightening the shoelaces and more.
A smart shoe is pretty much capable of providing you all the needful health
metrics so that you can keep a tab and improve your health. It’s very
impressive how technology is actually helping the mass to improve their
health, in a world where it is debatable whether this rapid evolution of
technology is beneficial or not.
If you ever wondered what are smart shoes? They are the new age wearable
smart gadgets that you can wear as a shoe and keep a track of all the major
health metrics in today’s time. Remember we mentioned ‘today’s time’
because it has a broader purpose to serve.
PRESENT SCENARIO OF SMART SHOES IN INDIA
According To a New Report Published by the Insight Partners Titled "Global
Smart Shoe Market to 2027" is a specialized and in-depth study of the Smart
Shoe industry with a special focus on the global market trend analysis. The
report aims to provide an overview of Smart Shoe Market with detailed
market segmentation by product, type, consumption distribution channel and
geography. The global Smart Shoe is expected to witness high growth during
the forecast period. The report provides key statistics on the market status of
the leading Smart Shoe Market players and offers key trends and
opportunities in the Industry
13
Leading Key Market Players Mentioned In The Report:-
1.361 Degree
2. Adidas AG
3.DIGITSOLE
4.Ducere Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
5.Li-Ning
6. Nike Inc.
7. Puma SE
8. Salted Venture Inc.
9. Stridalyzer ( Retisense Inc. Under Armour Inc.)
Smart shoe is a brainy technology footwear in which shoe soles are connected
to a smartphone application that uses Google map, which assist the user such
as showing direction. Smart shoes are equipped with sensors which detects
walking data and various features such as health tracking, navigation and
positioning. These factors is accounted for the positive growth of smart shoes
market.
Increasing demand for technology and booming conceptualization of smart
has made the need for smart shoe more popular. Furthermore, the integration
of smart technologies and the rising popularity of fashionable smart wearable
which fulfills both function and fashion need is expected to boost the growth
of the smart shoe market globally. However, lack of technological maturity,
14
presence of alternative, and high cost might hinder the growth of the global
smart shoe market.
The global smart shoe market is segmented on the basis of function, end-user,
and distribution channel. On the basis of function, the smart shoe market is
segmented into step-counting smart shoes, navigation smart shoes and auto-
tightening smart shoes. The smart shoe market on the basis of the end-user is
classified into adults, senior citizens, disabled individual and kids. Based on
distribution channel, the smart shoe market is segmented online and offline.
Smart Shoe Market report also provide a thorough understanding of the
cutting-edge competitive analysis of the emerging market trends along with
the drivers, restraints, challenges, and opportunities in the Smart Shoe
Market to offer worthwhile insights and current scenario for making right
decision. The report covers the prominent players in the market with detailed
SWOT analysis, financial overview, and key developments of the
products/services from the past three years. Moreover, the report also offers a
360� outlook of the market through the competitive landscape of the global
industry player and helps the companies to garner Smart Shoe Market
revenue by understanding the strategic growth approaches.
15
OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE
SMART SHOES by using IOT and its application. This shoe will be enriched
with various sensors with there numerous features which would help blind
persons to make there way to destination. Nowadays Android is a part of
everyone’s life, so in order to handle the stuffs present near them, that’s why
we are connecting the android application to smart shoes which would be
providing a hearing sensation to the person wearing that shoes which will
inform them were the obstacle is, and providing them a secure way to
destination.
16
17
HOW SMART SHOES WORK?
The smart-shoes work in such way:
1. Internal magnetic measurement units are combined with accelerometer,
gyroscope, and magnetometer does the most important job of evaluating
the step patterns and posture-related stuff.
2. Global Positioning System is used to locate your steps on the map, also
measure the distances, and keep a track record.
3. There are dedicated pressure sensors which will tell you if your
body weight is well distributed, or not.
4. The atmospheric pressure sensors will tell you the environment within
the shoes. What is the fatigue level, and What the temperature inside.
. Also, there are sensors to tell you about the battery percentage and memory
status.
18
DETAILS AND FEATURES IN SMART SHOES
ARE:-
. After you have a clear idea about what are smart shoes, let’s dig into how
exactly do they work.
. Smart Shoes has loads of sensors inbuilt, including gyroscope,
accelerometer, magnetometer, ambient environmental sensors, atmospheric
pressure sensors, and much more.
All these sensors together provide you a detailed evaluation of:
1. How many steps you are taking
2. At how many intervals
3. For how long
4. How much calories you have burnt
5. And how much is left
6. What is the temperature in the shoes
7. What are your pressure points in feet
8. What is the status of your fatigue
9. What is your pace
10.What about the stride
11.Are you following your correct posture?
12.What is your weight?
The list is pretty huge. And so are the benefits. A smart shoe works with all
the sensors, its storage, and transmitting system so that you can see a detailed
Analysis of your smartphone. And that is revolutionary, as it is just the first
step. Yes, the smart shoes we are having currently are just the first wave of
the gadget. It has a lot more noble causes to serve. With a more advanced
version of these smart gadgets.
19
20
What are the different technologies used in smart shoes?
Smart shoes require a reliable system for data acquisition, data transmission,
storage, and data analysis. A wide variety of sensors are used to acquire data
for smart shoes:
Inertial-magnetic measurement units made up of an accelerometer, a
gyroscope, and a magnetometer are used for gait analysis.
Satellite navigation systems such as GPS, GLONASS, and GALILEO are used
to provide information for the real-time location.
Pressure sensors are used to provide information on the distribution of body
weight mid-gait.
Ambient environmental sensors, including atmospheric pressure, light, and
sound sensors, are used for acquiring data from altitude-dependent activities
and the surrounding environment.
Internal status sensors are used to provide information on battery and
memory capacity.
Besides sensor recording, data acquisition systems often have cloud-based
transmission abilities. Raw sensor data is processed to get relevant
information using filters, drift correction, or gradient descent-based
algorithms. The data is further segmented using sequential model-based
approaches, template-based approaches, multidimensional sub sequencing,
and a dynamic time warping approach. And gait or activity patterns can be
extracted and analyzed for personalized feedback, visualization, and various
health applications.
21
22
Features:-
• Android Application/Accessibility Service to retrieve Navigational
instructions
• Support for both Outdoor and Indoor Navigation
• Bluetooth Low Energy Chip to send/receive directional information
• Control of 6 Vibration Motors
• Vibration Intensity Control
Benefits
• Navigational Assistance while travelling
• Distraction-free travel
• Automatic rerouting and alerts
• • Precisely Calculates pressure distribution on different areas of your feet.
23
Various User-controlled Vibration patterns.
Challenges and the future of smart shoes:
So, despite all these innovations, why are smart shoes not used widely? Shoe
companies need tremendous investment and technical know-how to make
smart shoes. It requires expertise, innovative engineering, and a lot of
resources. Then there are some social hurdles to jump, as well. Many
consumers do not see smart shoes as a part of their life yet. However, as
technology is advancing, these issues can be resolved.
A new industry insiders’ report suggests that the market for smart shoes will
continue to grow steadily through 2022, at a CAGR of about 23% over the
next four years. Already, companies like Adidas and Salomon are in the
process of testing shoes that can be customized with foot biomechanics. In
collaboration with Puma, MIT Design Lab is developing biologically active
smart shoes capable of sensing how we feel, which can therefore adapt to the
wearer. Apple is designing smart shoes that could prevent damage to feet,
helping users to avoid an injury. More companies like Sensoria, Garmin, Vivo
barefoot, E-Traces, E-Vone, and others are shaping the future of athletic wear
with their innovations. The era of smart shoes has just begun. Let’s wait and
watch for the next best pair of smart shoes. Smart Shoes can have GPS and
Haptic feedback system, along with sensors which will sense obstacles at all
directions and notify the person with haptic feedback.
24
If you are walking somewhere, and you don’t want to keep a check on your
phone’s screen or smartwatch as it distracts you from the road, these types of
smart shoes can really help you. Suppose you need to turn right, and your
right foot vibrates and informs you that you need to take a right, same for the
left.
For visually impaired persons, it can sense obstacles in front, or in multi-
direction and inform the person. It will be revolutionary.
Smart Shoes are just in phase one. And in the recent future, they all are going
to be superbly amazing serving a lot of purpose in our day to day lives.
Also, you can track your loved one, your kids who are wearing these shoes
with the help of GPS. There are a lot of smart things are smart shoes can do, it
is just a matter of time.
So now you have a detailed idea about what are smart shoes, how are they
priced, what are their features and most importantly, how they are going to
help so much in the near future. Tech world changes rapidly, fasten your seat
belts! (Until that becomes automatic too!
25
.
Smart shoes with a noble cause:
Apart from the above-mentioned shoes for evaluating and boosting
performance, other smart shoe companies, including Zhor Tech, have
created shoes designed for construction workers. These shoes feature a
safety insole that can count steps, detect fatigue, and evaluate posture.
Insoles can detect and alert a manager or supervisor in case of a slip or
an accident. Lechal footwear designed by Ducere Technologies is for
visually impaired people. The interactive haptic-based navigation system
in the shoes detects the vibration in the feet and guides them to their
destination. If the wearer needs to turn left, the vibration is sensed in the
left foot, and vice versa. The users can easily sync the shoes to the Lechal
app via Bluetooth for guidance to their destination.
26
Key players in the market:
While the market is still in its infancy, that hasn’t stopped a lot of shoe
companies from releasing their own smart shoes with intelligent
trackers. Some key players in the market are mentioned below:
Nike
One of the world’s biggest shoe companies, Nike, launched innovative
self-lacing Hyper Adapt 1.0 shoes. The shoes have pressure sensors in
the soles that sense when to put the foot inside and triggers an algorithm
that allows an automatic lacing. With integrated LEDs, the shoes can
alert a user of low battery or a tight fit. Moreover, these shoes do not
need charging every day, and the charge can last up to two weeks.
27
Under Armour
HOVR Phantom and HOVR Sonic shoes released in February 2018 by
Under Armour have inbuilt sensors to record a number of metrics
important for runners. These include pace, distance, steps, stride, and
cadence. These chip-laden shoes can be easily synced to the Map My Run
app and are compatible with iOS and Android phones. The users can
experience zero gravity and a great energy run with the shoes’ excellent
cushioning properties and comfort.
Under Armour | HOVR HAVOC Shot Compilation from Bryan Talkish
Digitsole
Smart shoes by Digitsole features a wide range of uses and is fit for
everyone. These interactive smart shoes provide personalized feedback
to analyze health, fatigue, posture, steps, and calories and create precise
data for improving health and preventing injuries. It is easily connected
to Bluetooth 4.0 device and provides personalized coaching in real time
via a smartphone app. The lightweight next-gen shoe design boasts of
auto-lacing and temperature regulation.
28
Xiaomi
Xiaomi, another big player in the market, has developed chip-laden
MiJia smart shoes. These shoes are easily connected to Xiaomi’s MiFit
app to detect speed, distance, calories, hours slept, and even weight. By
just shaking the shoes, one can connect and synchronize the data with
the app. Moreover, these sporty looking shoes possess a long battery life.
29
CONCLUSION
There is a necessity of innovative ideas which can bring a magical and
huge impact on the world.
30
There are around 7.4 billion people in the world, implying 3.4 trillion calories
of energy are being burnt by people while walking. This Smart Shoes makes
the most of this energy being wasted for various exciting applications.
There are around 285 million people who are visually impaired and
Smart Shoes can be a great aid to these people. Introducing Smart
Shoes can make a great impact on the country and help us walk
towards a better and bright future.
31
THANK YOU
32
