PMID- 29748507
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180921
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1424-8220 (Electronic)
IS  - 1424-8220 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 5
DP  - 2018 May 10
TI  - NordicWalking Performance Analysis with an Integrated Monitoring System.
LID - 10.3390/s18051505 [doi]
LID - 1505
AB  - There is a growing interest in Nordic walking both from the fitness and medical 
      point of views due to its possible therapeutic applications. The proper execution 
      of the technique is an essential requirement to maximize the benefits of this 
      practice. This is the reason why a monitoring system for outdoor Nordic walking 
      activity was developed. Using data obtained from synchronized sensors, it is 
      possible to have a complete overview of the users' movements. The system 
      described in this paper is able to measure: the pole angle during the pushing 
      phase, the arms cycle frequency and synchronization and the pushing force applied 
      to the ground. Furthermore, data from a GPS module give an image of the 
      environment where the activity session takes place, in terms of the distance, 
      slope, as well as the ground typology. A heart rate sensor is used to monitor the 
      effort of the user through his/her Beats Per Minute (BPM). In this work, the 
      developed monitoring system is presented, explaining how to use the gathered data 
      to obtain the main feedback parameters for Nordic walking performance analysis. 
      The comparison between left and right arm measurements allowed validating the 
      system as a tool for technique evaluation. Finally, a procedure to estimate the 
      peak pushing force from acceleration measurements is proposed.
FAU - Mocera, Francesco
AU  - Mocera F
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2984-8155
AD  - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 
      Torino, Italy. francesco.mocera@polito.it.
FAU - Aquilino, Giuseppe
AU  - Aquilino G
AD  - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 
      Torino, Italy. giuseppe.aquilino@studenti.polito.it.
FAU - Soma, Aurelio
AU  - Soma A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1111-3305
AD  - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 
      Torino, Italy. aurelio.soma@polito.it.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180510
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Sensors (Basel)
JT  - Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
JID - 101204366
SB  - IM
MH  - Accelerometry
MH  - Algorithms
MH  - Electronic Data Processing
MH  - Geographic Information Systems
MH  - Heart Rate/physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - Walking/*physiology
PMC - PMC5982472
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - MEMS sensors
OT  - Nordic walking
OT  - monitoring device
OT  - sport engineering
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2018/05/12 06:00
MHDA- 2018/09/22 06:00
PMCR- 2018/05/01
CRDT- 2018/05/12 06:00
PHST- 2018/02/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/05/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/05/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/05/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/05/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/09/22 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - s18051505 [pii]
AID - sensors-18-01505 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/s18051505 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sensors (Basel). 2018 May 10;18(5):1505. doi: 10.3390/s18051505.