Mobile Application for Informative Communication During Sports Events

Abstract: The student sports event Studentiaden is a yearly occurring event arranged by Swedish University Sports Federation (Sveriges Akademiska Idrottsförbund) in collaboration with local student sports associations. During Studentiaden approximately 500 to 1000 students participate every year from all across Sweden. The size of the sports event makes it difficult to reach out to all competitors and visitors. In this project, a mobile application was developed to allow faster communication from the organizers to the competitors and visitors with the use of push notifications. The application consists of relevant information regarding the event, such as schedules, results and contact information. A stress test with 1500 connections simultaneously was made which the application passed. Another test run on the mobile application was the navigation time to different pages in the application. The results attained from all tests where successful. The application was never published due to expected long waiting times for registration at Google Play and App store. However the application as it was provided an alternative means to transfer information to participants and visitors from the arrangers at Studentiaden.