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

“水上跑步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，包括获得专利的水上浮力服(HBS)，以帮助医疗康复、表现和预防受伤。医学上公认，水上运动和治疗(水上有氧运动、水上健身)可以通过减少90%的体重对关节造成的压力来提高受伤后的恢复能力。尽管生物识别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控和跟踪详细的生物识别。水中的运动和动力学数据-主要是由于水中的电子设备和传感器收集准确性能数据的挑战。为了解决这一问题，我们打算克服技术挑战，开发一系列可以嵌入潜水服氯丁橡胶材料(包括我们的HBS套装)及其周围的防水传感器。这项技术有两个主要应用：1.实现水上运动中的运动学和生物测量监测，以帮助恢复、康复和表现；2.监测从事高风险水上活动的人的生命体征--如潜水(在水面上)或商业捕鱼--在这些活动中，定位水中的人的能力可以拯救生命。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康复护理和个性化的表演计划；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GB(56.1%的复合年增长率)，我们认为到第5年，这对我们来说是3200万GB的机会，一旦技术开发出来，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)和客户。

"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."