Smart Glove Deployment for End-to-End Experimenting Palmar Pressure Assessments using Wearable IoT Technologies
Abstract
In the functional evaluations (FE), the lack of technological equipment for end-to-end hand grip experiments create difficulties in offering feed- back to physiotherapists, such as the ideal amount of force to apply in each grip experiment. As a result, an early prototype to study the amount of force involved in these experiments was created. The hardware has wireless communication interacting with a mobile application. In the current state-of-the-art, there is a low cost architecture of hardware operation and production, making possible its use and adhesion in therapeutic studies with technological demand. To identify the grip strength, piezoresistive sensors as fingertip touch sensors were used. The hardware is equipped with capabilities to receive and store online data from each experiment, sending the results to the cloud and providing access to historical data. Experiments were performed to determine the viability and performance of each fingertip sensor. The results show that the smart glove can detect the grip strength and communicate the data without issues.
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