Development of an integrated obesity management waist belt system composed of calorie tracking and waist circumference measuring module for long term monitoring

Author

Jang, Yongwon ; Noh, Hyung Wook ; Lee, I.B. ; Song, Yoonseon ; Jang, Won Ick ; Lee, Sooyeul

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst. in Korea (ETRI), Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

2172

Lastpage

2175

Abstract

A waist belt type simple device was designed to monitor the individuals who are obese and want to maintain their consumed calories and waist circumference changes. Relatively long term monitoring with this device could help them maintain their health conditions. This devised system is composed of calorie tracking and waist circumference module. This study suggests feasible and meaningful results. If users´ data are collected largely with this developed system, we can reveal the relationship between obesity and daily life pattern.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; health care; patient monitoring; calorie tracking; daily life pattern; health condition; integrated obesity management; long term monitoring; waist belt system; waist circumference measuring module; Belts; Current measurement; Hardware; History; Monitoring; Obesity; Pediatrics; Actigraphy; Clothing; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Energy Intake; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Motor Activity; Obesity; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Systems Integration; User-Computer Interface; Waist Circumference;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090408

Filename

6090408