ESPRIT with Pervasive Sensing (Programme Grant)

精英运动员在比赛的成败之间只有一条微妙的界限。尽管被公众视为终极健康的例子，但实际上它们往往表现出接近临床病理的生命体征。他们的生理参数挑战了我们认为临床正常的观念，因为作为个体，运动员代表了人类压力适应的独特模式，而且可悲的是，往往是适应不良。了解这种人类差异可能最终有助于理解公众幸福感的各个方面，无论是在工作场所还是在健康锻炼期间，以及在经历生活方式变化以克服疾病、年龄相关的变化和慢性压力时。为了最大限度地发挥英国运动员的潜力，并支持他们在未来的世界锦标赛、夏季奥运会、冬季奥运会和残奥会上夺得金牌，英国体育管理机构、英国体育管理机构和研究委员会已经确定了在训练期间工程和物理学科支持体育界并与其互动的机会。这不仅将为英国运动员带来可靠的竞争优势，而且在更广泛的应用中，它还将有助于理解运动表现的生物学，从而获得洞察力，从而改善整体人口的健康和福祉。ESPRIT的愿景是将英国定位于精英体育普及传感的前沿，并促进其在公共终身健康、福祉和医疗保健中的更广泛应用，同时还解决了EPSRC对英国科学和工程研究的关键标准。拟议的计划代表了英国在身体传感器网络(BSN)、生物传感器设计、运动成绩监测和设备设计方面的领先研究的独特协同。提供对任何环境中的物理、生理和生化参数的无处不在和无处不在的监测，而没有活动限制和行为改变是BSN研究的主要动机。随着传感器设计、MEMS集成以及超低功耗微处理器和无线技术的最新进展，这已成为现实。自成立以来，BSN在国际上发展非常迅速。提出建议的团队已经为一系列新颖、低成本、微型的无线设备和体育和医疗保健的原型做出了贡献。

Elite athletes walk a fine line between performance success and failure. Although regarded by the public as examples of ultimate fitness, in reality they often exhibit vital signs bordering on clinical pathology. Their physiological parameters challenge our notions of what we consider clinically normal, for, as individuals, athletes represent a unique model of human stress adaptation and often, sadly, mal-adaptation. Understanding this human variance may assist ultimately in understanding aspects of well being in the population at large, in the work place and during healthy exercise, as well as when undergoing lifestyle changes to overcome disease, age-related changes and chronic stress.To maximise the potential of GB athletes and support the quest for gold at future World Championships, Summer and Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the UK's sports governing bodies and the UK sports governing bodies and research councils have identified the opportunity for engineering and physical science disciplines to support and interact with the sports community during training. Not only will this secure competitive advantage for UK athletes, it will also, of more general application, contribute understanding of the biology of athletic performance to gain insights which will improve the health and wellbeing of the population at large.The vision of ESPRIT is to position UK at the forefront of pervasive sensing in elite sports and promote its wider application in public life-long health, wellbeing and healthcare, whilst also addressing the EPSRC's key criteria for UK science and engineering research. The proposed programme represents a unique synergy of leading UK research in body sensor networks (BSN), biosensor design, sports performance monitoring and equipment design. The provision of ubiquitous and pervasive monitoring of physical, physiological, and biochemical parameters in any environment and without activity restriction and behaviour modification is the primary motivation of BSN research. This has become a reality with the recent advances in sensor design, MEMS integration, and ultra-low power micro-processor and wireless technologies. Since its inception, BSN has advanced very rapidly internationally. The proposing team has already contributed to a range of novel, low cost, miniaturised wireless devices and prototypes for sports and healthcare.