Title :
Portable jogging monitor device and its application for health management
Author :
Makikawa, Masaaki ; Isaka, Tadao ; Iida, Takeo ; Asajima, Shuzo ; Tsukise, Kanji ; Shiozawa, Narihiro ; Nishiyama, Kento ; Wada, Sumio ; Nakayama, Kyoichiro ; Horiguchi, Michiyuki ; Torimoto, Hitoshi
Author_Institution :
Ritsumeikan Univ., Kyoto, Japan
Abstract :
We have developed a portable jogging monitoring device and studied its application for health management. This device is a micro processor based system with some sensors necessary to monitor the health condition of the user during jogging, that is, a heart rate sensor, a GPS sensor and a physical activity sensor. We also have developed PC based health management software, that receives jogging data from the portable device and stores it as a long term jogging trend data. From these long term data it can feedback the distance completion of jogging on the virtual course. Moreover it can show the trend of jogging time, distance, average heart rate and the user can know his/her own health condition.
Keywords :
biomechanics; biomedical electronics; computerised monitoring; medical computing; patient monitoring; sport; GPS sensor; PC based health management software; health condition monitoring; health management; heart rate sensor; microprocessor based system; physical activity sensor; portable jogging monitor device; Accelerometers; Aging; Application software; Assembly; Battery management systems; Belts; Biomedical monitoring; Fluctuations; Heart rate; Hospitals;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering, 2003. IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7943-8
DOI :
10.1109/APBME.2003.1302573
