System and method for promoting and tracking physical activity among a participating group of individuals

摘要

A system and method of tracking physical activity of a person in order to help motivate that person to add more exercise to their lives. Each participant is provided a motion sensor that detects forces incurred by the participant. The motion sensor creates electronic data that corresponds to the forces detected. The data is analyzed to determine whether or not exercise has been performed. The analysis can also determine the type of exercise performed, when the exercise was performed, and the duration of the exercise performed.

主权项

1. A system for tracking physical activity, comprising:
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon computer executable instructions for receiving, via at least one network connection, participant information, wherein the participant information comprises at least one identification code of the participant, a participant location, a participant title, and a participant affiliation; a rules engine communicatively connected to said computer executable instructions, and comprising a plurality of rules to generate at least one challenge for a plurality of the participants uniquely in accordance with the participant information of each of the participants; and at least one tracking means associated with each of the participants and coupled to the rules engine for correlating tracked progress of each of the participants, by the participant information, with the at least one challenge.