A portable smart belt design for home-based gait parameter collection

Wann Yun Shieh*, Tyng Tyng Guu, An Peng Liu

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Abstract

The process of walking or running is called the 'gait'. In clinical research, gait detection can be used to investigate the features of normal or abnormal gait for demonstrating a change from treatment or from disease progression. In the past, many optical-based gait detection approaches have been proposed. In these approaches, we have to paste many reflective markers on the subject's limbs and use multiple cameras from different directions to take the images of walking. They can provide high accuracy measurements for gait detection, but they also need very expensive optical equipment. Also, the experiments are restricted to the laboratory environment, which means that the collection of gait data will be limited in a short distance or a short time interval. In this paper we will propose a portable design, which uses dual accelerometers pasted on a subject's left and right waist to do the gait detection at any time, any place. Particularly, we will apply the wireless communication to develop a gateway, as well as its Apps on the smart phone, to collect sensing data. The data collected from the sensors can be uploaded to the remote cloud for many telemedicine applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 Joint Conference of International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving and International High Speed Intelligent Communication Forum, ICCP and HSIC 2013
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages16-19
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781479921508
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 Joint Conference of International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving and International High Speed Intelligent Communication Forum, ICCP and HSIC 2013 - Jiuzhai, China
Duration: 26 10 201328 10 2013

Publication series

Name2013 Joint Conference of International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving and International High Speed Intelligent Communication Forum, ICCP and HSIC 2013

Conference

Conference2013 Joint Conference of International Conference on Computational Problem-Solving and International High Speed Intelligent Communication Forum, ICCP and HSIC 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityJiuzhai
Period26/10/1328/10/13

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