Edith Granados

Smart cities concept aims to achieve effectiveness and efficiency of public resources to provide services that cover specific needs of society. Currently, some smart cities have been developing technological advances to monitor human health such as vital signs and movement. Movement is related to human gait, an independent and indispensable ability for locomotion. When this ability is desynchronized can be assessed by plantar pressure distributions. A footwear evaluation is useful to clinical gait analysis by diagnosing foot pathologies, enhances athletic training, as well as, wide public health promotion. This paper presents a custom portable pressure-sensitive foot insole to measure real-time plantar pressure in both static and dynamic activity monitoring, rehabilitation, gait, balance analysis, and its application in smart cities. 10 Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR) are attached to the insole. A stable data acquisition system interfaces in a wireless transmitter through Bluetooth c...