Wearable Smart System for Physical Activity Support

• Published in: Advanced Techniques for Knowledge Engineering and Innovative Applications pp. 291 - 304
• Main Authors: Świątek, Paweł, Klukowski, Piotr, Brzostowski, Krzysztof, Drapała, Jarosław
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013
• Series: Communications in Computer and Information Science
• Subjects: cardiovascular system; eHealth; modelling; Service Oriented Architecture
• ISBN: 9783642420160; 3642420168
• ISSN: 1865-0929; 1865-0937
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-42017-7_21

Wearable smart systems that measure and process a human vital sings have become important tool in eHealth, rehabilitation and recreation. This research was about to develop a system that aims to support recreational physical activity by delivering communication and computational services. The system architecture facilitates implementation of advanced data processing methods in the form of computational services and easily include additional services according to the user needs. An eHealth application was developed to demonstrate the system capabilities. The application makes use of expert’s knowledge together with measurement data in order to generate the optimal training plan. The system performs such tasks as: modelling of the sportsmen’s cardiovascular system, estimation of the sportsmen’s parameters, adaptation of the model to the sportsmen.