Patent ID: 8676170

Claim:
A system ( 1 ) for monitoring physical activity of a user ( 2 ), comprising: a portable medium ( 3 ) which can be worn by the user ( 2 ) and which is equipped with: a sensor ( 4 ) designed to detect a signal relating to movement of the user ( 2 ); a power supply ( 5 ); a display unit ( 6 ) of the portable medium; a data storage memory ( 7 ); an interface ( 8 ) which can be coupled to a gym machine ( 9 ) and which is configured to allow data to be exchanged between the memory ( 7 ) and the gym machine ( 9 ); a processor ( 11 ) programmed for deriving in real time, at least from the signal detected by the sensor ( 4 ), a dimensionless parameter value representing the physical activity of the user ( 2 ) wearing the portable medium ( 3 ) and for displaying, on the display unit ( 6 ), an indication, as a function of the derived value of the dimensionless parameter and of a reference value of the dimensionless parameter constituting a preset target for an amount of physical activity to be performed by the user ( 2 ) in a predetermined time interval; a remote server ( 12 ) having access to a database ( 13 ) containing data received from the portable medium ( 3 ), characterized in that the portable medium ( 3 ) comprises wireless communication means ( 10 ) configured to establish a short-range connection (C 1 ) between the portable medium ( 3 ) and a mobile telephone ( 14 ), the mobile telephone ( 14 ) being equipped with a display unit ( 15 ) and being set up to establish an Internet connection (I 1 ) and to connect up to the remote server ( 12 ) through the Internet connection (I 1 ) in order to transfer data in real time to the remote server ( 12 ) through the Internet connection (I 1 ), the remote server ( 12 ) being programmed to transmit, in real time through the Internet connection (I 1 ), motivational indications as a function of the data transmitted by the portable medium ( 3 ) to the remote server ( 12 ), so that the motivational indications are displayed on the display unit ( 15 ) of the mobile telephone ( 14 ), wherein motivational indications are derived in real time from the data transmitted by the portable medium ( 3 ) to the remote server ( 12 ) through the short-range connection (C 1 ) and the Internet connection (I 1 ), wherein said data comprise said dimensionless parameter, representative of the amount of physical activity carried out by the user during a day, and said reference value of the dimensionless parameter.