Advancing athlete health requires a shift from reactive sports medicine toward proactive, personalized, and longitudinal care. This article presents a conceptual framework for an Interdisciplinary AI Center for Longevity and Well-Being designed to integrate Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), wearable sensing, and multimodal analytics into a unified athlete health ecosystem. The manuscript contextualizes the proposed framework with relevant literature across key technical domains and presents a reference edge-fog-cloud architecture together with a proof-of-concept dashboard pipeline to illustrate technical feasibility. Within this framework, heterogeneous data streams from wearable physiological sensors, biomechanical devices, non-invasive biomarker monitors, and environmental trackers are organized to support multimodal analysis and individualized performance intelligence. The paper outlines five target application domains: real-time health monitoring, injury risk assessment, performance optimization, holistic well-being evaluation, and longevity-oriented health management. Privacy-preserving and interpretable AI components, including federated learning, differential privacy, and explainability-oriented design considerations, are presented as key architectural priorities, while several elements are explicitly identified as future development directions. Rather than claiming full real-world validation, this work provides an interdisciplinary blueprint and prototype-informed foundation for future research and implementation at the intersection of computer science, biomedical engineering, and sports science.

A Conceptual Framework for Athlete Health Using AIoT, Wearables, and Personalized Performance Intelligence

della Valle, Carlo;
2026-01-01

Abstract

Advancing athlete health requires a shift from reactive sports medicine toward proactive, personalized, and longitudinal care. This article presents a conceptual framework for an Interdisciplinary AI Center for Longevity and Well-Being designed to integrate Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), wearable sensing, and multimodal analytics into a unified athlete health ecosystem. The manuscript contextualizes the proposed framework with relevant literature across key technical domains and presents a reference edge-fog-cloud architecture together with a proof-of-concept dashboard pipeline to illustrate technical feasibility. Within this framework, heterogeneous data streams from wearable physiological sensors, biomechanical devices, non-invasive biomarker monitors, and environmental trackers are organized to support multimodal analysis and individualized performance intelligence. The paper outlines five target application domains: real-time health monitoring, injury risk assessment, performance optimization, holistic well-being evaluation, and longevity-oriented health management. Privacy-preserving and interpretable AI components, including federated learning, differential privacy, and explainability-oriented design considerations, are presented as key architectural priorities, while several elements are explicitly identified as future development directions. Rather than claiming full real-world validation, this work provides an interdisciplinary blueprint and prototype-informed foundation for future research and implementation at the intersection of computer science, biomedical engineering, and sports science.
2026
Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)
wearable sensors
athlete health
personalized performance intelligence
edge-fog-cloud computing
multimodal data fusion
digital health
sports analytics
Interdisciplinary AI
Longevity and Well-Being
predictive analytics
privacy-preserving AI
federated learning
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
proof-of-concept systems
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