Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications

CHAPTER 10

Wellness, Fitness, and Lifestyle Sensing Applications

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

—John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

Chapter 9 considered how sensors are playing an increasingly important role in health-related applications, such as chronic disease management. Medically, health is sometimes described as the absence of one or more of the “five Ds”: death, disease, discomfort, disability, and dissatisfaction. Consequently, the focus is on determining whether disease is present and, when present, managing ...