Accelerometer

• BEAVERTON, Ore., Jan. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Vernier Science Education recently updated two of its lab books, Advanced Physics with Vernier — Mechanics and Advanced Physics with Vernier — Beyond Mechanics, with investigations that utilize its award-winning Go Direct® sensors.
• Educators can now use the books, which collectively feature more than 40 hands-on investigations, to help high-school and college-level students learn a wide range of in-depth physics concepts using wireless data-collection technology.
• "The hands-on investigations featured in the books are perfect for college physics, AP* Physics, or IB† Physics-level classrooms and include many extensions to challenge even the most talented students."
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• These factors collectively contribute to the expansion of exoskeletons in the human augmentation landscape.
• Human Augmentation market for commercial end-users holds the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
• Human Augmentation market for Asia Pacific to hold the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
• These players have a strong market presence for human augmentation across various countries in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and RoW.

• Using a micro battery improves the range of communication, ensures the durability of tags, and enables better tracking and tracing functions.
• North America is expected to hold a significant share of the micro battery market during the forecast period.
• Many North America-based companies are developing micro batteries for application in wearable devices, smart packaging, smart cards, medical devices, and wireless sensors.
• Increasing demand for wearable and medical devices is a crucial factor driving the micro battery market in this region.

• Children’s health and development depend on how much time they spend doing physical activity, being sedentary and sleeping.
• It helps us to understand what influences these behaviours, and their contribution to health and development.
• Most evidence on movement behaviours comes from high-income countries.
• We bring a collective expertise across disciplines such as public health, physiotherapy and child development.

Challenges

• These devices are generally more expensive because they are “research-grade”, and upwards of US$250 each (before software and delivery).
• This is a major challenge for those of us working in African countries, as at least 50 devices would be needed to conduct large scale studies like SUNRISE.
• There is no local manufacturer or distributor of accelerometer devices.
• For example, caregivers have asked whether the devices attract lightning, or whether they have some physical effect on the body.
• Institutional challenges Within African research institutions, another challenge is how to build capacity.

Possible solutions

• A possible solution is to collaborate with local partners and stakeholders to identify the most appropriate devices for each context and population.
• Establishing some type of research equipment hub in Africa would go some way to help.
• Researchers in Africa could also examine other new data collection methods that are customised to the local context.

Conclusion

• But the contribution of movement behaviours to population health and development is significant, particularly as there is growing evidence of the global economic costs of physical inactivity.
• We need local research on these behaviours, starting in the early years, when patterns of behaviour are established.
• Without addressing barriers to robust research, researchers in this region will continue to lag behind in this field.