This device can track over-exercising; alert you
IIT scholars have now come up with this innovative device that will raise an alarm about the risk of heart attack due to excessive exercise
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New Delhi: There have been reports of sudden death of some film actors and other big personalities. Despite being healthy and young, these deaths happened due to cardiac arrest. Experts say a big reason for this is excessive exercise.
IIT scholars have now come up with an innovative device that will raise an alarm about the risk of heart attack due to excessive exercise.
IIT Gandhinagar researchers have invented a cardiac-sensitive AI-enabled Virtual Reality-based treadmill exercise platform which prevents risk of over-exercising.
This innovation offers an adaptive, progressive and immersive exercise experience, which can lead to improved cardiac endurance, dynamic balance, and walking pattern, thereby preventing risk of over-exercising.
It can prove to be very useful for healthy gym/treadmill users as well as patients suffering from gait disorders.
The modern and fast life of the 21st century has its own share of boon and bane. Regular exercise is one of the ways to lead a healthy life in this fast-moving world, but people seldom know about their exercising capacity and end up over-exercising. Sometimes this may also result in fatal accidents due to cardiac overload in the healthy gym users and individuals with gait disorders (who suffer from excess energy expenditure during walking).
Given the spectrum nature of one's exercising capacity, individualised exercise intensity becomes very important to ensure adequate exercise outcomes and reduce possibilities of any fatal accident.
Generally, decisions regarding the level of exercises are taken by trainers or clinicians who closely monitor an individual's cardiac and physical capacities and regulate the exercise protocols. However, continuous monitoring and presence of a trainer or clinician during such gait exercise sessions might become a challenge with limited healthcare resources.
To address this multi-pronged and often neglected health concern, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), led by Prof Uttama Lahiri, Professor of Electrical Engineering, has invented a virtual reality (VR) based treadmill exercise platform - 'PTreadX' - that offers personalised, adaptive, and progressive treadmill exercise, such that the user is neither under-challenged (limiting the outcome of exercise) nor over-challenged (causing undue stress or harm).
This invention was part of the PhD research by Dr Dhaval Solanki, a PhD alumnus of IITGN, who was joined by Prof Manasi Kanetkar, Assistant Teaching Professor, Design and Innovation Centre; Nirav Kumar Patel, Industrial Designer; and Anand Chauhan, Junior Research Fellow, IITGN.
