title: Design and development of an automatic data acquisition system for a balance study using a smartcard system.
abstract: For measurement value logging of board angle values during balance training, it is necessary to develop a measurement system. This study will provide data for a balance study using the smartcard. The data acquisition comes automatically. An individually training plan for each proband is necessary. To store the proband identification a smartcard with an I2C data bus protocol and an E2PROM memory system is used. For reading the smartcard data a smartcard reader is connected via universal serial bus (USB) to a notebook. The data acquisition and smartcard read programme is designed with Microsoft® Visual C#. A training plan file contains the individual training plan for each proband. The data of the test persons are saved in a proband directory. Each event is automatically saved as a log-file for the exact documentation. This system makes study development easy and time-saving.
authors.affiliation: Medical University Vienna, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Waehringer Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria. clemens.ambrozy@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ambrozy
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Kolar
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rattay
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D008838:Microcomputers; D055616:Microtechnology; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory; D004856:Postural Balance; D012984:Software