International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 09 Issue: 05 | May 2022
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Smart Spine Posture Detector Dr. Girish Mundada1, Adesh Thakur2, Sanket Saklecha3, Ankush Induklar4 1Professor,
Dept. of Electronics and Tele-communications, Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune, Maharashtra (India) 2,3,4UG student, Dept. of Electronics and Tele-communications, Pune Institute of Computer Technology, Pune, Maharashtra (India) ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract – Lower spinal back pain problem treatments
reduce stress it is therefore, important to maintain a good posture. In this project, a flex sensor is used to detect bending. To monitor the position the flex sensor is mounted on the back of the spine. The user gets notified when the posture changes from 'normal' to 'poor'. A microcontroller is used to set good position limits, which may be specific to a particular user. The proposed system aims to use a simple monitoring system that can be set in the workplace easily. This can prevent cases of other spinal problems and scoliosis that often start with the wrong posture.
costs to billions of dollars every year. Low back pain is often caused by improper seating posture, which in turn affect the spinal muscles. Regularly switching shape and maintaining proper posture helps to improve and maintain a person’s health and prevents muscular problems. By indulging into sedentary lifestyle and working long hours in front of technology, good body shape of people gets deteriorated and leads to abandoning of spine health. Proper posture plays an important role to lead a healthy lifestyle. Back pain is the one of the major reasons for people of young age group to seek medical help. The human ability to stay upright has been compromised over a past few years, and health is been overshadowed by improper routine. The purpose of this project is to identify and implement strategies that can be practically used to determine spinal posture alignment. The system identifies and records the user status and it as proper and improper. It also provides statistics to user about his/her posture and prevents user from improper alignment.
2. SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN Today people are very focused on their work, which leads them to spend time doing work through uncomfortable living programs, especially in this covid era of online. Lack of regular exercise adds weight to the problem leading to longterm muscle and spinal health problems. Slouching can cause spinal cords to reach beyond their healthy limits, and improper posture can compress your spinal discs. When we are working on some desk work or working on a computer then that leads to our head leaning forward and rounded shoulder posture which is called as ‘poor posture syndrome’. User will get awareness and reminder of their position using a vibrating response, and adjust it accordingly. Over the period, the system makes the user practice of maintaining and holding good posture, outdoors without the need to be reminded.
Key Words: Java Development Kit, Arduino UNO, spine bending, Flex sensor, Android SDK.
1. INTRODUCTION One of the most common human problems is back pain. Many people experience back pain at a particular point in their life. The number of people with back pain increases with increasing age, starting in with children going to school and rising in people of middle age group of age. Proper posture indicates the proper alignment of body parts so that the minimum energy is required to maintain the required position. Good posture makes the circulation of bodily fluids better and enhances breathing. Poor posture feels normal and continues to devolve further from the correct posture after a period of time. When a person gets used to poor posture then it becomes difficult to make it right as the memory of the muscle stores the details for poor posture and neglects the memory for the right posture. The longer poor posture is left uncorrected, it will continue to divagate. One can track the posture easily and also correct it by using a posture monitoring and correcting system.
2.1 ARDUINO UNO Arduino UNO is the brain of the system. It acts as a decision maker for the system. Based on the spine bending angle measurements, it decides whether the user is sitting in proper position or not. If the angle of bending is found improper, it takes action of informing the user about his/her sitting position. In Arduino UNO, programs can be downloaded from the Arduino computer program. Arduino has a comprehensive support system community, which makes it easy way to start working with the embedded electronics. Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on ATmega328. It has 14 digital input / output ports, out of which 6 can be used as PWM, 6 analog inputs, 16 MHz
Although deadly diseases are fought daily, something as simple as a bad posture is often neglected. Wrong posture can start as a habit and quickly lead to acute back pain. To
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