Development of water-resistant biometric, positioning and kinetic sensors: Enabling intelligent rehabilitation, training and remote monitoring in water

“Aqua Running是一家总部位于利物浦的创新运动科学公司，在开发先进的水上训练技术方面处于世界领先地位，包括专利的水力浮力服（HBS），以帮助医疗康复，性能和伤害预防。”医学上认为，水中运动和治疗（水中有氧运动、水中健身、水中健身、水中健身）可以通过减少90%由体重引起的关节压力来改善损伤的恢复。尽管生物特征传感器和可穿戴技术取得了进步和快速增长，但还没有开发出传感器系统来监测和跟踪水中详细的生物特征、运动和动力学数据——主要是由于水中电子设备的挑战和传感器收集准确的性能数据。为了解决这个问题，我们打算克服技术上的挑战，开发一系列防水传感器，这些传感器可以嵌入在潜水服氯丁橡胶材料（包括我们的HBS潜水服）内部和周围。该技术有两个主要用途；1 .使水中运动中的动力学和生物特征监测有助于恢复、康复和表现；监测从事高风险水上活动的人员的生命体征，例如水肺潜水（在水面上）或商业捕鱼，在这些活动中，定位水中人员的能力可以挽救生命。医院和精英运动队（我们的目标客户）都需要先进的分析和数据来制定分层的康复护理和个性化的表现计划；因此，该项目对我们进入这些市场至关重要。到2018年，企业生理可穿戴设备的市场将达到96亿英镑（56.1%的复合年增长率），我们认为这是一个3200万英镑的机会，我们已经有了试验合作伙伴（Sanitas和皇家马德里医疗服务公司），一旦技术开发出来，我们就有了客户。”

"Aqua Running are a Liverpool based, innovative sport science company and world leaders in the development of advanced in water training technology, including the patented hydro buoyancy suit (HBS) to aid in medical rehabilitation, performance and injury prevention.It is medically accepted that aquatic exercise and therapy (aqua aerobics, aquatic fitness, aquafitness, aquafit) improves recovery from injury by reducing the stress on joints caused by body weight by up 90%.Despite there being advances and rapid growth in biometric sensors and wearable technology, there has been no sensor system developed to monitor and track detailed biometrics, movement and kinetics data in water - primarily due to challenge of electronics in water and the sensors gathering accurate performance data.To address this, we intend to overcome the technical challenges and develop a range of water resistant sensor that can be embedded in and around wetsuit neoprene material (including our HBS suit). The technology has two primary applications;1. Enabling the kinetic and biometric monitoring in aqua exercising to aid recovery, rehabilitation and performance;2. Monitoring the vital signs of people engaged in high risk aquatic activity -- such as scuba diving (when at the surface) or commercial fishing -- where the ability to locate people in water in can be life-saving.Both hospitals and elite sports teams (our target customers) require advanced analytics and data to develop stratified rehabilitation care and personalised performance plans; the project is therefore crucial to us accessing these markets.The market for enterprise physiological wearables will reach £9.6bn by 2018 (56.1% CAGR) and we see this as an £32m opportunity for us by Y5 and we already have trial partners (Sanitas and Real Madrid Medical Services) and customers in place once the technology is developed."