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Pervasive 2006: Pervasive Computing pp 117–134Cite as

The Design of a Portable Kit of Wireless Sensors for Naturalistic Data Collection

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In this paper, we introduce MITes, a flexible kit of wireless sensing devices for pervasive computing research in natural settings. The sensors have been optimized for ease of use, ease of installation, affordability, and robustness to environmental conditions in complex spaces such as homes. The kit includes six environmental sensors: movement, movement tuned for object-usage-detection, light, temperature, proximity, and current sensing in electric appliances. The kit also includes five wearable sensors: onbody acceleration, heart rate, ultra-violet radiation exposure, RFID reader wristband, and location beacons. The sensors can be used simultaneously with a single receiver in the same environment. This paper describes our design goals and results of the evaluation of some of the sensors and their performance characteristics. Also described is how the kit is being used for acquisition of data in non-laboratory settings where real-time multi-modal sensor information is acquired simultaneously from several sensors worn on the body and up to several hundred sensors distributed in an environment.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1 Cambridge Center, 4FL, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA

    Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, Stephen S. Intille, Louis Lopez & Kent Larson

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  1. Google, Inc., 720 4th Ave. #400, 98033, Kirkland, WA, USA

    Kenneth P. Fishkin

  2. Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany

    Bernt Schiele

  3. System Research Group, School of Computer Science and Informatics, UCD, Dublin, Ireland

    Paddy Nixon

  4. Imaging, Visualisation & Graphics Lab, Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland

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Tapia, E.M., Intille, S.S., Lopez, L., Larson, K. (2006). The Design of a Portable Kit of Wireless Sensors for Naturalistic Data Collection. In: Fishkin, K.P., Schiele, B., Nixon, P., Quigley, A. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3968. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11748625_8

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