SAFE GYMS: IoT Systems for Safe and Healthy Sport and Working Environments

The Pandemic has highlighted the need for a novel conceptualization of public and private living spaces to increase safety and salubrity. The aim of the conceptualization is to improve the well-being and quality of living of people who work, inhabit, or frequent these indoor spaces. Cutting-edge technologies that leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm can be exploited for sanitization or monitoring compliance with anti-Covid-19 safety norms. The present paper describes a trial organized in a gym equipped with an IoT-integrated system for air quality monitoring, ventilation, filtration, ionization, and surfaces and objects sanitizing. Athletes and professionals in biomedical sciences participated in assessing the IoT system. Self-reported instruments were administered. The comparison between pre and post-tests showed that knowing the features and functioning of these advanced and innovative systems increase the degree of their acceptance and the perception of healthiness and safety in an indoor environment, also considering a post-pandemic situation.