ToneUP - An Intelligent Bodysuit For Real-time Motion Capture And Assistance To Aid Prevention And Rehabilitation In Healthcare And Sporting Contexts

英国老龄化改善和公共卫生中心最近召集了100多个组织，共同努力使英格兰成为世界上最适合老年人的国家，为联合国2031年健康老龄化十年的愿景做出贡献。Tonus的使命与他们的承诺一致，即“把预防放在首位，确保在需要时及时获得服务和支持”，其中包括以证据为基础的干预措施，如力量和平衡课程。可穿戴技术的应用使运动科学家和临床医生能够分析和量化锻炼，并预测受伤的发生。现在可以将这些应用程序转移到更大的用户组。特别是在健康老龄化领域，这些设备可以促进对肌肉骨骼老化的评估和监测。Tonus正在开发一种内置传感器的紧身衣，可以跟踪用户关节的运动并评估运动质量，鼓励人们通过定期的剧烈运动来改善他们的活动能力。其创新的解决方案使用了一组新颖的传感器，这些传感器分布在全身，用户不会注意到，在锻炼时可以完全不受限制地运动。用户的活动可以通过无线应用程序实时监控，该应用程序可以呈现用户运动的“数字孪生”化身，而智能机器学习模型可以识别特定的运动模式，并在运动范围、速度、平滑度和姿势方面提供运动质量的“分数”。收集的数据是完全匿名的，以保护用户的身份。Tonus Tech的长期愿景是弥合可穿戴技术和外骨骼之间的差距，将多个传感器、精心设计的服装和软机器人技术结合到一个以易用性、舒适性和有洞察力的反馈为中心的产品中。未来的版本不仅可以感知，还可以根据感知到的数据采取行动，提供辅助推动，从纠正用户姿势的触觉“提示”到减少身体整体能量消耗的力量。我们的长期解决方案是一套外衣，它不仅能给人们提供支撑，还能在移动时提供“额外的推动力”，就像电动自行车一样。

The Centre for Ageing Better and Public Health England recently brought together over 100 organisations to work together to make England the best country in the world to grow old, contributing to the UN's Decade of Healthy Ageing's vision for 2031\.The mission of Tonus is aligned with their commitment, which is "putting prevention first and ensuring timely access to services and support when needed", which includes evidence-based interventions like strength and balance classes.The application of wearable technologies has enabled sports scientists and clinicians to analyse and quantify workouts and predict the onset of injury. These applications are now ready to be transferred to larger user groups. In the field of healthy ageing in particular, these devices can encourage the assessment and monitoring of musculoskeletal ageing.Tonus is developing a bodysuit with embedded sensors that tracks the movement of users' joints and assesses the quality of movement, encouraging people to improve their mobility through regular vigorous exercise routines.Its innovative solution uses a combination of novel sensors that are distributed throughout the body and are not noticeable to the user, allowing completely unrestricted movements while exercising.Users' activity can be monitored in real-time through the use of a wireless app that presents a 'digital twin' avatar of their movements, while intelligent machine learning models identify specific movement patterns and provide a 'score' of the quality of the movement, in terms of the range of motion, speed, smoothness and posture.The collected data is fully anonymised to protect users' identity.The long-term vision of Tonus Tech is to bridge the gap between wearable technologies and exosuits, combining multiple sensors, well-designed garments and soft robotics technologies into a product centered around ease of use, comfort and insightful feedback.The future versions of the suit will not only sense, but also act on the sensed data, providing assistive nudges that will range from haptic 'prompts' that correct users' posture, to forces that can reduce the body's overall energy expenditure. Our long-term solution is an exosuit that gives people not only support but 'an extra push' while moving, just like an electric bike does.