4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"

Research Article

Smart garments for performance and training assessment in sport

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257404,
        author={Paolo Perego and Giuseppe Andreoni and Giorgio Santambrogio and Marcello Fusca and Riccardo Lavezzari},
        title={Smart garments for performance and training assessment in sport},
        proceedings={4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare - "Transforming healthcare through innovations in mobile and wireless technologies"},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
        year={2014},
        month={12},
        keywords={wearable monitoring; sport; swimming; style detection; performance assessment},
        doi={10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257404}
    }
    
  • Paolo Perego
    Giuseppe Andreoni
    Giorgio Santambrogio
    Marcello Fusca
    Riccardo Lavezzari
    Year: 2014
    Smart garments for performance and training assessment in sport
    MOBIHEALTH
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobihealth.2014.257404
Paolo Perego1,*, Giuseppe Andreoni1, Giorgio Santambrogio1, Marcello Fusca1, Riccardo Lavezzari1
  • 1: Politecnico di Milano
*Contact email: paolo.perego@polimi.it

Abstract

This paper describes a novel method and system to monitor and compute swimmer performance. We placed a 3-axes accelerometer onto the athlete's back. This accelerometer allows for detecting and interpret single gestures during the training session. The acquired data can be processed to compute synthetic parameters for a qualitative assessment of the performance. Symmetry and no. of foot-/arm-stroke integrate the measurement. 3 healthy volunteers (1 male, 2 females) participated to the system validation. The system proved a fine detection of each phase and movement in the analyzed sport. Also comfort and wearability was positively assessed.