A cloud computing architecture with wireless body area network for professional athletes health monitoring in sports organizations — Case study of Montenegro

High physical, psychological and economic cost of sports injuries are the reason that lead to the recognition of a need for having a system to monitor health parameters of a professional athlete hence preventing incidences of severe injuries. Athletes in any sports can greatly benefit from feedback from the systems for improving the quality of their training. In this paper, we present architecture for a cloud based system which incorporates wearable motion sensors to obtain information on health parameters of sports athlete and provide feedback to the sports clubs and sports organization in Montenegro. The sensors are placed on athlete´s body at predefined positions which may capture the movements, heart rate, ECG and respiratory data. Advances in wireless technology and supporting infrastructure provide opportunity for real-time healthcare and fitness monitoring without constraining the activities of the user. Wirelessly connected sensors placed in, on, and around the body form a body area network for continuous and unobtrusive monitoring of health parameters of professional sports athletes.