Designing a new wearable and Wireless Inertial Measurement Unit for the physical activity monitoring

Physical activity monitoring is important to record all the daily physical activities for the purpose of fitness and health. This motive caused a tremendous progress in the wearable technologies. Current project encompasses 9 degree of freedom inertial sensor (triaxial accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer) with Wi-Fi communication in a very small wearable data logger integrated with a web server. It is applicable as on-body sensor network for more intricate activity recognition applications. Inertial sensor data measured and transferred to either a custom designed web server in online mode or stored in a MicroSD memory card in the offline mode. Wearable data logger with 18×30×30 mm (W×L×H) and 20 grams weight designed and produced. The system was tested at 200 Hz during online mode and acceptable precision and noise ascertained. Current device provided movement recording with wireless communication in small size and low cost to be applicable in the health and fitness applications.