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'More and more health conscious people are investing a lot of time in fitness programs like yoga, Pilates, or gymnastics. The Smart-Mat, an intelligent sport mat originated in the EU funded project SimpleSkin, assumes the role of a digital trainer to help the user exercise properly. The mat looks like an ordinary exercise mat, but actually has about 7000 embedded sensor nodes made from a very light and inexpensive fabric. The textile sensor pad can easily be rolled up and transported. When the user is training on the mat, the system receives a fine grained, two dimensional pressure profile from the pad. It identifies what body part is in contact with the mat, how much pressure is being applied, and displays this information on a monitor or a smartphone. Smart-Mat recognizes dynamic movements like sit-ups, push-ups, abdominal crunches, and notes whether the user can find the right balance between strength and technique when performing slower exercises like those of yoga, or whether the movement is smooth or abrupt. The sensor system of the mat is not only able to detect the number of repetitions of an exercise, but can also record the intensity, speed, duration, recovery time and even the respiration rate in the relaxation phase. SimpleSkin project: http://simpleskin.org/ publication and presentation in UbiComp\'14: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2636088 https://vimeo.com/107289983 Music credit: Maitek https://soundcloud.com/maitek87'
Tags: fitness , yoga , training , SPORT , smart-mat
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