Telemesure in the service of prevention and for athletes.

 

For the first time and world première you will be able to follow the Paris Marathon in the body of one of the volunteer Testers on Sunday 11^th April. Indeed, we will be able to have live access to the physiological answers each second of the race and all along the 42.195 km of the Marathon. It will certainly be possible to establish that the runner starts off too quickly and reaches maximum physiological values (with reference to his own data tested in the laboratory). This world première is realized because Professor Véronique Billat’s laboratory (INSERM Unit 902 – Genopole University of Evry Val d’Essonne “Integrative Biology for adaptation to exercise”), is specialized in the field of new technologies for the study of biological answers to exercise. On Sunday, Véronique Billat and her team will equip 20 runners, among the 37.000 Paris Marathon runners, of a heart rate, energy and oxygen consumption analyser, an electrocardiogram connected to a GPS and an accelerometer to measure the speed. All these physiological signals are transmitted on a calculation server and on the internet in order to follow the runner live.

The aim is to better prepare and inform the runners but also to test, in difficult experimental conditions, useful tools which enable to follow people in their daily working and life activities in a mobile way and especially those with illnesses (glycaemia, blood pressure, ECG, etc…).