Sitting in a wrong posture can lead to many health issues. But now a device can help prevent that, says PIONEER HEAlTH
Students from computer sciences, applications, information technology, bio-sciences, electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering departments of lovely Professional University (lPU) joined hands to create an innovative bionic device — SitAby — which will sense bad sitting positions of the users to get them rid of commonly occurring chronic cervical pains and body-aches. This amalgamation of technology, using the Internet of Things (IoT) framework and kinesiology, the device is sure to control and cure wrong postures.
Rigorous researches by now have endorsed that an hour of wrong sitting is as unhealthy as smoking two cigarettes, and decreases the life expectancy by 21.8 minutes. Similarly, a person having 23 hours sitting and desk-bound activity per week has 46 per cent more risk for developing heart- disease. Here, the need is to have a stance-guardian, which in turn looks to the posture in real time and alerts through vibrations, audio and mobile notification for correcting the posture. The device keenly looks to longevity of sitting and guides for shorter breaks in between, which are the need of the hour.
The device is an innovative way to keep people fit. It will guard and guide people against wrong sitting postures by monitoring their immediate sitting position. It is a wireless-device which is easily mountable on the seat of a person for easy use. Created on uniquely designed posture sensing mathematical steps; it is the only product from India to be listed in US Crowd Funding Portal Kickstarter.
Since it is an IoT device, it remains connected to mobile/cloud and has robust and uniquely designed posture sensing calculations. On the basis of the present postures, an alert, audio, vibration on device and video depicting the present posture is sent to the user for posture correction. The data is also captured in real time from data points arranged, which is further transmitted to the data cloud for analysis and to the posture archival. These analyses and postures are for future references by clinician for diagnosis and treatment planning.
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