Contribution to the design of wearable and environmental sensors for measuring respiration and vertical jumping

In the present work, a wearable system capable of monitoring breathing and an environmental system that measures the height of vertical jumps executed on it are developed. These systems were developed for use with elderly and frail adults, as auxiliary tools to monitor the health status of people. Both systems were subjected to validation protocols against commercial references widely used in the literature. In both cases, the results obtained with the proposed systems indicate that they are as reliable as commercial systems. Finally, the developed systems were published as open-source.