TY - GEN
T1 - A software infrastructure for wearable sensor networks
AU - Hanaoka, Kensuke
AU - Takagi, Ayako
AU - Nakajima, Tatsuo
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
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 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.
AB - 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 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/RTCSA.2006.10|
DO - 10.1109/RTCSA.2006.10|
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34547281396
SN - 0769526764
SN - 9780769526768
T3 - Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, RTCSA 2006
SP - 27
EP - 35
BT - 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, RTCSA 2006
T2 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, RTCSA 2006
Y2 - 16 August 2006 through 18 August 2006
ER -