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12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'06)
A Software Infrastructure for Wearable Sensor Networks
Sydney, Australia
August 16-August 18
ISBN: 0-7695-2676-4
Kensuke Hanaoka, Waseda University, Japan
Ayako Takagi, Waseda University, Japan
Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan
In ubiquitous computing environments, contextawareness 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 will 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.

Citation:
Kensuke Hanaoka, Ayako Takagi, Tatsuo Nakajima, "A Software Infrastructure for Wearable Sensor Networks," rtcsa, pp.27-35, 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA'06), 2006
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