Design of a wearable physical activity monitoring system using mobile phones and accelerometers

Author

Intille, Stephen S. ; Albinali, Fahd ; Mota, Selene ; Kuris, Benjamin ; Botana, Pilar ; Haskell, William L.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

3636

Lastpage

3639

Abstract

This paper describes the motivation for, and overarching design of, an open-source hardware and software system to enable population-scale, longitudinal measurement of physical activity and sedentary behavior using common mobile phones. The “Wockets” data collection system permits researchers to collect raw motion data from participants who wear multiple small, comfortable sensors for 24 hours per day, including during sleep, and monitor data collection remotely.

Keywords

accelerometers; biomedical equipment; biomedical measurement; medical computing; mobile handsets; patient monitoring; public domain software; sensors; sleep; Wockets data collection system; accelerometer; comfortable sensors; longitudinal measurement; mobile phone; monitor data collection; open-source hardware system; open-source software system; physical activity; raw motion data; sedentary behavior; sleep; wearable physical activity monitoring system; Accelerometers; Batteries; Biomedical monitoring; Bluetooth; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Sensors; Acceleration; Cellular Phone; Environmental Monitoring; Humans; Motor Activity;

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.2011.6090611

Filename

6090611