A wearable pervasive platform for the intelligent monitoring of muscular fatigue

There are currently approximately 45 million people in Europe who report a long standing health problem or disability; according to the World Health Organization data the total number of persons chronically ill are 860 million at a worldwide level. Within a person centric health management framework, the modern healthcare systems must move away from the ´health care´ to ´health management´ in order to shift from ´how to treat patients´ to ´how to keep people healthy´. Assistive and health monitoring technologies can help to automatically identify and address major deficits. In this work we describe a wearable pervasive platform able to monitor the muscular fatigue during his/her daily life. Our system monitors the performance of a subject through the evaluation of sEMG signals using a wearable device aimed to immediately recognize the onset of muscular fatigue.