Alarming Assistive Technology: An IoT enabled Sitting Posture Monitoring System

The usage of smart devices is tremendously booming up in recent years. The users of smartphones are increasing over the years as well. However, there is a great tendency that users gradually change their posture while using smart devices over long hours. This might potentially lead to several health risks such as damaged spinal cord or back pain on the users. In this paper, we propose a monitoring system with an IoT framework that could monitor the sitting posture of the user while using the smart devices. This proposed alerting system integrates the sensors and wireless networks for data accumulation for monitoring a person’s sitting posture and alert them to correct their sitting posture.