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Design and Validity of a Smart Healthcare and Control System for Electric Bikes

This paper presents the development of an electronic system that converts an electrically assisted bicycle into an intelligent health monitoring system, allowing people who are not athletic or who have a history of health issues to progressively start the physical activity by following a medical pro...

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Autores principales: Avina-Bravo, Eli Gabriel, Sodre Ferreira de Sousa, Felipe Augusto, Escriba, Christophe, Acco, Pascal, Giraud, Franck, Fourniols, Jean-Yves, Soto-Romero, Georges
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112419
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084079
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author Avina-Bravo, Eli Gabriel
Sodre Ferreira de Sousa, Felipe Augusto
Escriba, Christophe
Acco, Pascal
Giraud, Franck
Fourniols, Jean-Yves
Soto-Romero, Georges
author_facet Avina-Bravo, Eli Gabriel
Sodre Ferreira de Sousa, Felipe Augusto
Escriba, Christophe
Acco, Pascal
Giraud, Franck
Fourniols, Jean-Yves
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description This paper presents the development of an electronic system that converts an electrically assisted bicycle into an intelligent health monitoring system, allowing people who are not athletic or who have a history of health issues to progressively start the physical activity by following a medical protocol (e.g., max heart rate and power output, training time). The developed system aims to monitor the health state of the rider, analyze data in real-time, and provide electric assistance, thus diminishing muscular exertion. Furthermore, such a system can recover the same physiological data used in medical centers and program it into the e-bike to track the patient’s health. System validation is conducted by replicating a standard medical protocol used in physiotherapy centers and hospitals, typically conducted in indoor conditions. However, the presented work differentiates itself by implementing this protocol in outdoor environments, which is impossible with the equipment used in medical centers. The experimental results show that the developed electronic prototypes and the algorithm effectively monitored the subject’s physiological condition. Moreover, when necessary, the system can change the training load and help the subject remain in their prescribed cardiac zone. This system allows whoever needs to follow a rehabilitation program to do so not only in their physician’s office, but whenever they want, including while commuting.
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spelling pubmed-101462272023-04-29 Design and Validity of a Smart Healthcare and Control System for Electric Bikes Avina-Bravo, Eli Gabriel Sodre Ferreira de Sousa, Felipe Augusto Escriba, Christophe Acco, Pascal Giraud, Franck Fourniols, Jean-Yves Soto-Romero, Georges Sensors (Basel) Article This paper presents the development of an electronic system that converts an electrically assisted bicycle into an intelligent health monitoring system, allowing people who are not athletic or who have a history of health issues to progressively start the physical activity by following a medical protocol (e.g., max heart rate and power output, training time). The developed system aims to monitor the health state of the rider, analyze data in real-time, and provide electric assistance, thus diminishing muscular exertion. Furthermore, such a system can recover the same physiological data used in medical centers and program it into the e-bike to track the patient’s health. System validation is conducted by replicating a standard medical protocol used in physiotherapy centers and hospitals, typically conducted in indoor conditions. However, the presented work differentiates itself by implementing this protocol in outdoor environments, which is impossible with the equipment used in medical centers. The experimental results show that the developed electronic prototypes and the algorithm effectively monitored the subject’s physiological condition. Moreover, when necessary, the system can change the training load and help the subject remain in their prescribed cardiac zone. This system allows whoever needs to follow a rehabilitation program to do so not only in their physician’s office, but whenever they want, including while commuting. MDPI 2023-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10146227/ /pubmed/37112419 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084079 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Soto-Romero, Georges
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084079
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