Wearable Sensor Network for Body Kinematics Monitoring

Author

Rocha, L.A. ; Correia, J.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Electron., Minho Univ., Guimaraes

fYear

2006

fDate

11-14 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

138

Abstract

A comfortable wearable sensor network for monitoring the body kinematics during hidrocinesiotherapy sessions is presented. Sensing modules composed by 3-axis accelerometers, 3-axis magnetometers and interface electronics are integrated in a swimming suit and connected to a microcontroller by a serial interface. Data from the suit is transmitted to a base station using a 2.4 GHz RF transceiver. Temperature, heart rate and frequency rate are also monitored by the suit, and the sensor network presented can distinguish between rotation and motion of the monitored system. Each sensing module presents a 1 degree resolution.

Keywords

accelerometers; distributed sensors; gait analysis; kinematics; magnetometers; patient monitoring; wearable computers; 3-axis accelerometers; 3-axis magnetometers; body kinematics monitoring; hidrocinesiotherapy sessions; interface electronics; microcontroller; wearable sensor network; Accelerometers; Base stations; Heart rate measurement; Kinematics; Magnetometers; Microcontrollers; Monitoring; Radio frequency; Temperature sensors; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable Computers, 2006 10th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Montreux

ISSN

1550-4816

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0597-1

Electronic_ISBN

1550-4816

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWC.2006.286364

Filename

4067747