%0 Journal Article
%T A Wireless Flexible Sensorized Insole for Gait Analysis
%A Simona Crea
%A Marco Donati
%A Stefano Marco Maria De Rossi
%A Calogero Maria Oddo
%A Nicola Vitiello
%J Sensors
%D 2014
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/s140101073
%X This paper introduces the design and development of a novel pressure-sensitive foot insole for real-time monitoring of plantar pressure distribution during walking. The device consists of a flexible insole with 64 pressure-sensitive elements and an integrated electronic board for high-frequency data acquisition, pre-filtering, and wireless transmission to a remote data computing/storing unit. The pressure-sensitive technology is based on an optoelectronic technology developed at Scuola Superiore SantĄŻAnna. The insole is a low-cost and low-power battery-powered device. The design and development of the device is presented along with its experimental characterization and validation with healthy subjects performing a task of walking at different speeds, and benchmarked against an instrumented force platform.
%K sensorized insole
%K plantar pressure distribution
%K gait analysis
%K real-time gait monitoring
%K wearable sensor
%U http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/1/1073