P-STEP

Currently this app is only available to specific users taking part in the P-STEP Pilot Study. If you would like to find out more about P-STEP please email p-step.support@le.ac.uk

There are a lot of fitness applications (apps) for use with smartphones and wearables (e.g. Apple Watch, Fitbit) available to people to encourage physical activity. However, these are aimed at healthy people, there are very few apps catering for those who live with long-term conditions (LTCs), where advice on exercise needs take into account the persons LTC. There are also apps to advise on pollution levels and air quality, but again these do not include advice for people with LTCs.

Personalised Space Technology Exercise Platform (P-STEP) is an app that will provide not only advice on exercising in form of walking advice taking into account a person’s LTC but also by linking this to real-time data on pollution provide advice on when and where to exercise. The app will access a person’s location using satellites around Earth (Global Navigation Satellite System or GNSS for short) in order to provide advice on when and where to exercise.

The app will be able to tell the a user about the pollution levels when they go for a walk. It will alert a user to air pollution risks and highlight “cleaner air” routes, provide user feedback, track progress and provide encouragement. The App will be developed in such a way that it will work on the majority of smartphone.