{"id":6313,"date":"2021-05-05T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:29:09","slug":"using-bluetooth-beacons-to-measure-gait-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-bluetooth-beacons-to-measure-gait-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Bluetooth Beacons to Measure Gait Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s recent research into using Bluetooth beacons to measure human gait speed. The ability to walk can be used as a core indicator of health in aging and disease. For example, it can enable early detection of cognitive diseases such as dementia or Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers at Universitat Jaume I and University of Extremadura, Spain, have created a new dataset. In their paper <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2306-5729\/5\/4\/115\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">BLE-GSpeed: A New BLE-Based Dataset to Estimate User Gait Speed<\/a> (pdf) they describe how they collected the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bluetoothbeaconsgaitspeed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bluetoothbeaconsgaitspeed.jpg 591w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/bluetoothbeaconsgaitspeed-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 85vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"855\" height=\"761\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaitspeedarchitecture.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaitspeedarchitecture.png 855w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaitspeedarchitecture-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/gaitspeedarchitecture-768x684.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The database is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/record\/4261381#.X8aMjllKj0o\" target=\"_blank\">freely available<\/a> and includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>mac: The MAC address of the detected beacon.<\/li><li>rssi: The RSSI value obtained for the beacon.<\/li><li>device: A four-character descriptor for the smartwatch that performed the scan.<\/li><li>timestamp: The time stamp at which the scan was received.<\/li><li>user: The id of the user that was performing the experiment.<\/li><li>direction: A number (0 or 1) indicating the direction of the walk.<\/li><li>walk_id: A number that identifies each walk.<\/li><li>speed: The actual speed of the user, in $m\/s$.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It database contains RSSI measurements from different wearable devices and different BLE beacons, corresponding to 382 walks performed by 13 actors. The open source code used is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/esansano\/ble-gspeed\" target=\"_blank\">available on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s recent research into using Bluetooth beacons to measure human gait speed. The ability to walk can be used as a core indicator of health in aging and disease. For example, it can enable early detection of cognitive diseases such as dementia or Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Researchers at Universitat Jaume I and University of Extremadura, Spain, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/using-bluetooth-beacons-to-measure-gait-speed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Bluetooth Beacons to Measure Gait Speed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6319,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}