Project description
Advanced wearable device enables accurate kinematics monitoring in any environment
Several fields, including health, athletics, video arts and behavioural ecology, need tools that perform motion capture, particularly in natural environments. The EU-funded GESTUS project addresses the needs of athletic trainers and movement physicians, creating a wearable device that integrates global navigation satellite system data, inertial measurement unit data and cloud-based data processing. It will enable easy remote monitoring and data sharing, initially targeting deep analysis during training of high level athletes and highly accurate home monitoring of degenerative neurological diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. The device will support both early diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression and treatment effects. For athletes, it will be a key element to optimise training sessions and prevent the risk of injury.
Objective
Overall goal is to use GNSS as an support for IMU to track whole body movements in the wild, for healthcare and wellness applications.
The GESTUS proposal aims to address a clear need of movement workers, physicians, physical therapists, and athletic trainers. The need is to have a tool that allows for highly accurate tracking of the kinematics of the human body, for the entire duration of the activity.
GESTUS proposes a solution based on the integration of GNSS and IMU within ad-hoc wearable devices, which allow for high accuracy for a long duration of time in the real environment. The solution then consists of an ad-hoc created data processing algorithm and a cloud platform, with associated communication infrastructure, to automate sensor management, data downloading, processing itself, and results fruition, analysis and sharing.
The project and the solution it proposes is primarily aimed at remote monitoring of patients with, or potentially affected by, degenerative and neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's. In such patients, it is very important to monitor with great accuracy the movements of every part of the body, both for possible early diagnosis and to monitor the evolution of the disease, to evaluate the effect of ongoing treatments, and to plan in advance actions to mitigate symptoms.
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- social sciences social geography transport navigation systems satellite navigation system global navigation satellite system
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology multiple sclerosis
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology parkinson
- medical and health sciences health sciences sport and fitness sciences
- natural sciences computer and information sciences data science data processing
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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16128 GENOVA
Italy
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