Researchers develop wireless sensor network to measure physical activity
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Researchers develop wireless sensor network to measure physical activity
Wearable sensors that monitor physical activity are hardly anything
new, but some researchers from MSU’s Department of Kinesiology are
taking the idea quite a bit farther with their latest project. They’ve
developed a new system that employs a network of sensors that not only
track movement, but can monitor things like tilt, posture and the
proximity of limbs to each other. That, the researchers say, allows
them to detect different types of activity, and more accurately
measure the energy expended on them. Of course, it is still just a
prototype, but it’ll apparently soon be put to the test by some
graduate students, and there’s plenty of backing behind it—the
project is being funded two-year, $411,000 grant from the National
Institutes of Health.
Researchers develop wireless sensor network to measure physical
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