WearNET: A Distributed Multi-sensor System for Context Aware Wearables

Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2002

Paul Lukowicz, H. Junker, Mathias Stäger, T. von Büren, Gerhard Tröster

DOI10.1007/3-540-45809-3_28

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Citations75

SJR quartileQ2

SJR score0.35

SNIP0.55

TL;DR

A distributed, multi-sensor system architecture designed to provide a wearable computer with a wide range of complex context information that devotes particular attention to sensor placement, system partitioning as well as resource requirements given by the power consumption, computational intensity and communication overhead.

Abstract

This paper describes a distributed, multi-sensor system architecture designed to provide a wearable computer with a wide range of complex context information. Starting from an analysis of useful high level context information we present a top down design that focuses on the peculiarities of wearable applications. Thus, our design devotes particular attention to sensor placement, system partitioning as well as resource requirements given by the power consumption, computational intensity and communication overhead. We describe an implementation of our architecture and initial experimental results obtained with the system.

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