Proposed Design and Assessment Methodology of a Wearable Device for Prevention and Performance Evaluation of Athletes

The paper presents the design approach of a low power stretchable wearable epidermal electronic device as part of an advanced athlete performance management framework to perform multi-parametric, multi-modal measurements of vital physiological parameters through the skin and via sweat analysis. It can be used to seamlessly monitor athletes, to prevent serious health complications and injuries during training, sudden death and complications related to overtraining. The proposed framework allows real-time physiological monitoring, tracking, prediction and quantification of athletic performance and estimation of recovery time after an injury, an illness or the overtraining syndrome. It is based on low-cost and clean room-based fabrication techniques and interconnects and readout electronics based on commercially available off-the-shelf components and application-specific integrated circuits. A data analytics platform incorporates real-time monitoring to identify the susceptibility to sudden death, health complications or injury, for the athlete, executing a personalized prediction model