Whoever makes virtue out of necessity deserves the recognition of all. And in that the Japanese are specialists: that the storms hit your country as has happened this winter in Japan and you have to spend the day away from home removing the snow from in front of the door? Well, they invented the Dig-Log, a device based on the Internet of Things (IoT, for its acronym in English) that is installed in the snow shovel and motivates users to turn their obligation into a fun sport.
The device, developed by the innovation laboratory HACKist, of the company Hakuhodo Inc, in collaboration with the Nagaoka University of Technology, connects with the smartphone app that accompanies the device and allows to calculate the weight of the snow that has moved, as well as the amount of calories burned in doing so.
In this way, cleaning the snow can become an entertaining physical activity and even a healthy competition with friends , because the application will show you your achievements, according to the kilos of snow transferred. In addition, Dig-Log records data such as the user's location and working hours.
Its inventors believe that by combining an activity that was previously strenuous and heavy with a form of sports entertainment, this device has the potential to increase the number of volunteers in, for example, natural disasters.
