An approach to monitoring, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment or
conditioning of animals such as horses does not require use of
restrictive equipment such as treadmills or force plates and that can
provide either or both of more or less immediate or continuous processing
of data to perform the monitoring or diagnosis. One or more wireless
sensors are attached to the animal, for example, to measure
motion-related parameter associated with one or more parts of the animal.
Sensor data is received from the sensors and processed to identify a
characteristic of the motion of the animal, such as a quality of gait.
The sensor data can also be used to avoid injury to the animal and/or the
rider, and to verify the identity of an animal.