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Since the physical inactivity is one of the four main risk factors for the incidence of Non-Communicable Diseases, the World Health Organization has stimulated the creation of actions to promote regular physical activity practices. The Brazilian Ministry of Health established a physical activity program, where people perform physical activities under the supervision of health professionals. In order to real-time monitoring individuals during their physical activity practices we developed an ubiquitous computing environment. This environment is composed of three modules that automatically collect physiological data, and provide indicators which will support public policies for promoting physical activity. This paper presents this environment focusing on the Wireless Body Sensor Network module, and its simulation that was performed using the OMNet++ 5 tool. The simulation results showed a packet loss due to the simultaneous delivery of packets to the coordinator node, which caused a network bottleneck. In order to deal with this problem, we designed a communication protocol to be run at the application layer that allows the host nodes to send packets in turns, avoiding this way the packet loss.
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Our thanks to the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and to the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for sponsoring this research.
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Schick, L., de Souza, W.L., do Prado, A.F. (2018). Wireless Body Sensor Network for Monitoring and Evaluating Physical Activity. In: Latifi, S. (eds) Information Technology - New Generations. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 558. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54978-1_11
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