Abstract: Smart chair for body posture monitoring is proposed for assessing the body posture of a person sitting on a chair. Monitoring of body posture is done in two phases with each phase being implemented as a separate node. While sensors are incorporated for identifying the body posture, voice messages and text messages are generated to alert when wrong body postures are sensed. The chair can be programmed to perform a specific task at a given point of time even without the physical intervention of a user. The Smart chair for body posture monitoring not only recognizes the poor body posture, but also alerts the person about wrong sitting posture. Thus, the proposed system is very effective in ensuring human health, besides the hardware implemented being less expensive.

Keywords: Body posture, posture detection, posture correction, Assessment device.

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2021.86155