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mCrutch: A Novel m-Health Approach Supporting Continuity of Care

This paper reports the architecture of a low-cost smart crutches system for mobile health applications. The prototype is based on a set of sensorized crutches connected to a custom Android application. Crutches were instrumented with a 6-axis inertial measurement unit, a uniaxial load cell, WiFi con...

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Autores principales: Arcobelli, Valerio Antonio, Zauli, Matteo, Galteri, Giulia, Cristofolini, Luca, Chiari, Lorenzo, Cappello, Angelo, De Marchi, Luca, Mellone, Sabato
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112492
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084151
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author Arcobelli, Valerio Antonio
Zauli, Matteo
Galteri, Giulia
Cristofolini, Luca
Chiari, Lorenzo
Cappello, Angelo
De Marchi, Luca
Mellone, Sabato
author_facet Arcobelli, Valerio Antonio
Zauli, Matteo
Galteri, Giulia
Cristofolini, Luca
Chiari, Lorenzo
Cappello, Angelo
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description This paper reports the architecture of a low-cost smart crutches system for mobile health applications. The prototype is based on a set of sensorized crutches connected to a custom Android application. Crutches were instrumented with a 6-axis inertial measurement unit, a uniaxial load cell, WiFi connectivity, and a microcontroller for data collection and processing. Crutch orientation and applied force were calibrated with a motion capture system and a force platform. Data are processed and visualized in real-time on the Android smartphone and are stored on the local memory for further offline analysis. The prototype’s architecture is reported along with the post-calibration accuracy for estimating crutch orientation (5° RMSE in dynamic conditions) and applied force (10 N RMSE). The system is a mobile-health platform enabling the design and development of real-time biofeedback applications and continuity of care scenarios, such as telemonitoring and telerehabilitation.
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spelling pubmed-101465592023-04-29 mCrutch: A Novel m-Health Approach Supporting Continuity of Care Arcobelli, Valerio Antonio Zauli, Matteo Galteri, Giulia Cristofolini, Luca Chiari, Lorenzo Cappello, Angelo De Marchi, Luca Mellone, Sabato Sensors (Basel) Article This paper reports the architecture of a low-cost smart crutches system for mobile health applications. The prototype is based on a set of sensorized crutches connected to a custom Android application. Crutches were instrumented with a 6-axis inertial measurement unit, a uniaxial load cell, WiFi connectivity, and a microcontroller for data collection and processing. Crutch orientation and applied force were calibrated with a motion capture system and a force platform. Data are processed and visualized in real-time on the Android smartphone and are stored on the local memory for further offline analysis. The prototype’s architecture is reported along with the post-calibration accuracy for estimating crutch orientation (5° RMSE in dynamic conditions) and applied force (10 N RMSE). The system is a mobile-health platform enabling the design and development of real-time biofeedback applications and continuity of care scenarios, such as telemonitoring and telerehabilitation. MDPI 2023-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10146559/ /pubmed/37112492 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084151 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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mCrutch: A Novel m-Health Approach Supporting Continuity of Care
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37112492
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23084151
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