An IoT and Cloud Enabled Smart Chair for Detection and Notification of Wrong Seating Posture

Modern-day lifestyle is hugely dependent on the computers as most of the work is directly or indirectly controlled by them. Such machines are reducing the efforts of human beings and improving the human lifestyle by enhancing comfort in doing the work. This enhanced comfort however is making the humans inactive as they tend to sit in one place for many hours. The sitting posture plays a very important role in avoiding the injuries to spine and joints. It gets difficult for the person to know the correct posture while sitting on a chair. In the proposed work, a cloud-based IoT-enabled smart chair is proposed that continuously monitors the seating posture of a person and notifies the person about the wrong sitting position while simultaneously storing the data on the cloud. The database stored in the cloud helps medical doctors to analyze the root cause of the problem related to the spinal or joint. The proposed work equipped with sensors, microcontroller, and cloud-enabled technology offers seamless connectivity and notification thus making the system suitable for any kind of environment.