Activity monitor systems are increasing used recently. They are important for athletes and casual users to manage physical activity during daily exercises. In this paper, we use a triaxial accelerometer to design and implement an intelligent belt system, which can detect the user's step and flapping motion. In our system, a wearable intelligent belt is worn on the user's waist to collect activity acceleration signals. We present a step detection algorithm to detect real-time human step, which has high accuracy and low complexity. In our system, an Android App is developed to manage the intelligent belt. We also propose a protocol, which can guarantee data transmission between smartphones and wearable belt effectively and efficiently. In addition, when users flap the belt in emergency, the smartphone will receive alarm signal sending by the belt, and then notifies the emergency contact person, which can be really helpful for users in danger. Our experiment results show our system can detect physical activities with high accuracy (overall accuracy of our algorithm is above 95%) and has an effective alarm subsystem, which is significant for the practical use.
Urinary incontinence is the most common health problem in aged people. Leaving incontinence events unmanaged will make a negative influence on the aged and the patient both mentally and physically. This paper presents a design and implementation of a real time wireless monitor system for urinary incontinence, which has been applied in two nursing homes in Beijing and Shanghai. We collect real time moisture information by using non-contact humidity sensor designed and manufactured by us. When urinary incontinence, the sensor will send alert to mobile device via Bluetooth. If got the alert, the mobile device will send the alert to relatives of the aged or disabled people and cloud computing platform, through which we can make this information managed and displayed and the paramedic can be informed about the alarm. This paper gives a brief introduction to the framework of this system, the design of the non-contact sensor, the transmission of wireless data and the results of tests.
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