Modernized your wheelchair with IntelliWheels automatic shifting gear system

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All through the years most cyclist are enjoying the comfort and benefits of a wide variety wheels that have been manufactured and out in the market. Different types of car, motorcycles, bikes and other vehicles have wide selection of wheels but not the wheelchair. For the past years wheelchair have been installed with the usual and ordinary type of wheel. After how many centuries had past an engineering graduate of University of Illinois Scott Daigle has offered his brilliant insight to finally make a change in the manual maneuvering of wheelchair and come up with the IntelliWheels Automatic Gear-shifting System for wheelchair. This is an automated system that detects the movement of the wheelchair and how it is pushed and then changes its gears accordingly.

The IntelliWheels Automatic Gear-shifting weighted 5 pounds or 2.2 kg is a set of two wheels that is compatible to any manual wheelchair so it is just easy to install to make your usual wheels into a modernized and easy to used one. This works because of the sensor at the bottom of the wheelchair that analysis torque, speed of the wheelchair to know how fast it should move and the tilt to know the slope and by this way the best gear for the work is being established. The wheels are design to make help the uses of wheelchair easy and less strain.

IntelliWheels Automatic Gear-shifting is expected to be out in the market on September 2012 by Daigle and two of his partners Marissa Siebel and Jean Samson to be commercialized it after a series of test to ensure of its best performance and safety features. The wheels will undergo 40 days and 40 nights test to be prepared for 4 years of use.