The Possibility of Normal Gait Analysis Based on a Smart Phone for Healthcare

In this paper, through the inertial sensors or a smart phone to collect human walking gait data and then with periodic gait analysis to establish personal health counseling application. Based on regularly gait data analysis, it could find some special features of the person, such as dynamic symmetry of gait, cyclic stability of gait, and the walking patterns, also their changes with weekly or monthly. If the irregular or abnormal walking patterns like asymmetry or skew, stumbles or slip could be often detected, it may make early warning to the person that he or she may has the problem of body, possibly the falls risk.