Wireless posture correction device developed

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 2

Students of computer sciences, applications, information technology, bio-sciences, electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering departments of Lovely Professional University (LPU) joined hands to create an innovative bionic device ‘SitAby’, which will sense bad sitting positions of users to get them rid of commonly-occurring chronic cervical pains and body-aches.

This amalgamation of technology, at LPU, using the Internet of Things (IoT) framework and kinesiology, ‘SitAby’ is sure to control and cure wrong postures.

“It started back in late 2014 with just some switches that we mounted on a office chair and had it connected to mobile.

“It is a wireless device which is easily mountable on the seat of a person for easy use. It will guard and guide people against wrong sitting postures by monitoring their immediate sitting position”, said Dr Lovi Raj Gupta, Dean, Engineering, LPU.

“An IoT device, it remains connected to mobile/cloud and has robust and uniquely-designed posture- sensing calculations. On the basis of the current postures, an alert, audio, vibration on device and video depicting, the present posture is sent to the user for posture correction”, he added.

Device Designer Vishakha Choudhary adds, “SitAby is a solution to all threats caused by wrong, bad or long sittings. The data is also captured in real time from data points arranged, which is further transmitted to the data cloud for analysis and to the posture archival. These analyses and postures are for future references by clinicians for diagnosis and treatment planning. As such, ‘SitAby’, remains connected to Mobile Cloud for data analysis and clinician’s advices to get rid of all sitting menaces.”

Testing Lead Yerra Prasanthi, hardware developer, Satish Reddy and software developer Kunal Panchal share proudly, “Our innovative device has been given ‘InfyMaker’ award by the consulting, technology and next-generation services’ global leader Infosys. ‘SitAby’ is a way to keep people fit. Rigorous researches by now have endorsed that an hour of wrong sitting is as unhealthy as smoking two cigarettes and decreases the life expectancy by 21.8 minutes. Similarly, a person having 23 hours sitting and desk-bound activity per week has 46 per cent more risk for developing heart-disease. Here, the need is to have a stance-guardian, which, in turn, looks to the posture in real time and alerts through vibrations, audio and mobile notification for correcting the posture”.