Training Monitoring System for Cyclist Based on Android Application Development

Abstract

Recently, technological advance in Android application has grown rapidly especially in health care application along with the development of smartphone. The utilization of wireless sensor networks with the mobile wireless health devices has provided us with an alternative solution in health monitoring instead of using the traditional approach with higher cost. Therefore, the objective of this project is to develop and implement a training monitoring system for cyclist based on android application. In this system, wireless sensor nodes are assigned to collect the required data such as cyclist’s heart rate and cadence. All the data are then sent to the mobile device used by cyclist via wireless communication. The data collected are first stored in device’s internal memory before they are transferred to the server. This project involved programming of hardware using specific software such as Eclipse Juno Android SDK and SQLite database. The system also includes the graphical user interface (GUI) design using Java language for application on smartphone. In addition, the simple Dropbox command is used to design the server for data storage. All the stages of implementations are integrated in one whole system and can be run as an application by cyclist. The developed system is proven to be cost effective and reliable as well as easy for customization.