Week 5

INTRODUCTION OF PEDOMETER PROJECT

In a modern lifestyle nowadays, there are lot of pedometer in the market such as Omron, Nike+ipod and many more. The pedometer used to measure many parameter such as total steps, calories burn, distance travelled and speed. Pedometer used as a motivational tool for people starting a walking program because walking promotes weight loss, improves cardiovascular fitness, lowers blood pressure and blood sugar and decreases the risk of chronic disease. The British Health Foundation recommends that walk 10,000 steps a day to for long term health and reduced chronic disease risk.

            Commercial pedometer is using pendulum as a sensor to detect movement and put on the hips which cause not accurate reading. This project using accelerometer sensor which give more accurate value because it can detect 3 ways movement that is X, Y, and Z direction.

In this project, the pedometer is wear by a person or athlete and the pedometer will detect movement and then send the data to display at computer by using Visual Basic. In Visual basic, the user can monitor the activity or performance after walking or jogging. This project is focus for all type genres and also for athlete for different purpose. The pedometer transmitted the data to the PC by using Wireless Zigbee. The wireless Zigbee is chosen because the low-power consumption and easy to communicate. Other than is because the Zigbee can communicate within 1600 meter. This is very useful for pedometer to use as wireless to transmit the data.