A unique approach to activity monitoring

Inertia Technology brings forward a new concept, targeted at the user interaction with its surroundings. Using low-cost wireless sensor nodes, Inertia captures and monitors the motion of people and moving objects, recognizes current situations and activities, provides constructive feedback and takes appropriate actions.

The Inertia system is a collection of intelligent sensor nodes that build a wireless network. Using the wireless medium as the communication channel, the system processes data collaboratively and performs distributed monitoring and actuating tasks.

Unique to the Inertia system is that it can analyze the dynamics of the environment using only low-power wireless sensor nodes.

The movement analysis and interpretation takes place within the sensor network and does not depend on any external equipment or infrastructure.

Case study: Healthcare and wellbeing

The paradigm shift from hospital-based to home-centric and person-centric services represents the focus of Inertia in healthcare and wellbeing applications.

Our miniaturized wireless inertial sensors provide distributed motion caption and intelligent recognition of activities and situations. Based on this technology, we propose a person-centric healthcare solution designed to help elderly and people with chronic diseases to improve their condition, to augment training and exercising, and to enhance social interaction, as seen in the IS-ACTIVE project.

The home becomes the main care environment, where patients can receive real-time feedback in order to monitor, self-manage and improve their physical condition according to their specific situation.

> Read more about the IS-ACTIVE project