A Real-time Posture Monitoring System Towards Bad Posture Detection

The neck and back pains are the most spread health problems of the century caused by remaining slouching for long hours on the smart phones, the tablets and the computers. Many medical researches prove that the monitoring and the improving of the seating posture can prevent the spinal pains. In this...

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Published in:Wireless personal communications 2021-09, Vol.120 (2), p.1207-1227
Main Authors: Tlili, Ferdews, Haddad, Rim, Bouallegue, Ridha, Mezghani, Neila
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applications programs
Cloud computing
Communications Engineering
Computer Communication Networks
Data collection
Engineering
Inertial sensing devices
Medical research
Mobile computing
Monitoring
Monitoring systems
Networks
Operating systems
Posture
Real time
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
Smartphones
Tablet computers
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Summary:The neck and back pains are the most spread health problems of the century caused by remaining slouching for long hours on the smart phones, the tablets and the computers. Many medical researches prove that the monitoring and the improving of the seating posture can prevent the spinal pains. In this paper we propose a Real-time seating posture monitoring system. The system is composed of a smart belt equipped with inertial sensors. The sensors collect the posture information and send them to a cloud server via Wi-Fi connection. The cloud server processes the collected data, then, sends the result to mobile applications via Wi-Fi connection. The mobile applications allow the user to monitor his posture over time and receive in Real-time a sound and a visual notification in case of a bad posture detection. Two mobile applications Android and iOS are implemented that can be used for different mobile phone OS. In this work we will detail the design and the architecture of the proposed posture monitoring system and the implemented mobile applications. We will present the posture measurements of good and bad posture using the proposed posture monitoring system.
ISSN:0929-6212
1572-834X
DOI:10.1007/s11277-021-08511-2