A Software Infrastructure for Wearable Sensor Networks

@inproceedings{citeulike:2722991, abstract = {In ubiquitous computing environments, context-awareness is one of the most important research topics. Computers embedded in our surrounding can extract information about a user, and the information makes it possible to offer personalized services according to the user's preference. To extract a large amount of context information, wearable sensor devices become more important in the near future. However, it is not easy to develop context-aware services that use context information from wearable sensor devices because of the gap between low-level sensor information and high-level context that the services require. In this paper, we propose a software infrastructure for wearable sensor networks. We first discuss the requirements to retrieve context information from wearable sensor networks. Then, we introduce our software infrastructure named Cinnamon that extracts high-level context from low-level context information retrieved from wearable sensor networks. The software infrastructure makes it dramatically easy to develop context-aware services for wearable sensor networks. We present the design and implementation of Cinnamon, and discuss our current prototype implementation}, author = {Hanaoka, K. and Takagi, A. and Nakajima, T. }, booktitle = {Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, 2006. Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {2722991}, doi = {10.1109/RTCSA.2006.10}, journal = {Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, 2006. Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Conference on}, keywords = {computing, mobile, physical, software}, pages = {27--35}, posted-at = {2008-04-27 03:04:35}, priority = {0}, title = {A Software Infrastructure for Wearable Sensor Networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTCSA.2006.10}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2722991 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2722991 TI - A Software Infrastructure for Wearable Sensor Networks T2 - Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, 2006. Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Conference on JF - Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, 2006. Proceedings. 12th IEEE International Conference on SP - 27 EP - 35 N2 - In ubiquitous computing environments, context-awareness is one of the most important research topics. Computers embedded in our surrounding can extract information about a user, and the information makes it possible to offer personalized services according to the user's preference. To extract a large amount of context information, wearable sensor devices become more important in the near future. However, it is not easy to develop context-aware services that use context information from wearable sensor devices because of the gap between low-level sensor information and high-level context that the services require. In this paper, we propose a software infrastructure for wearable sensor networks. We first discuss the requirements to retrieve context information from wearable sensor networks. Then, we introduce our software infrastructure named Cinnamon that extracts high-level context from low-level context information retrieved from wearable sensor networks. The software infrastructure makes it dramatically easy to develop context-aware services for wearable sensor networks. We present the design and implementation of Cinnamon, and discuss our current prototype implementation KW - computing KW - mobile KW - physical KW - software AU - Hanaoka, K AU - Takagi, A AU - Nakajima, T PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RTCSA.2006.10 ER -