Mobile fitness monitoring system

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Consumers today are health conscious and want to know what's happening with their bodies in real time, to help them make positive lifestyle choices and improve their health and fitness. Qubit Systems Inc. is interested in expanding its range of products for monitoring fitness, activity levels and functional health parameters. Central to this goal is the development of a flexible, reliable and easy-to-use body-worn system with the capacity to measure cardiopulmonary fitness (CPX) and physiological parameters (heart rate, blood oxygenation, and body temperature), and which can be used to monitor activities of daily living, or to chart progress during exercise or athletic training. In this project, we will integrate CPX and physiological sensors into a wearable sensor suite. Sensor data will be captured by a body-worn microcomputer, and transmitted wirelessly to an interface, such as a smart-phone, and subsequently to an on-line database. The data will be analyzed to provide personalized fitness scores and trend analysis. Consumers will be able to access their data and data analysis directly. It is foreseen that this system will be developed by Qubit into a commercial product within 12-24 months. Such a product will help support Canadians in maintaining healthy, active lifestyles, which is important for reducing levels of obesity, at all ages, and sustaining good health as we age.