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Towards Wearable Autonomous Microsystems

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This paper presents our work towards a wearable autonomous microsystem for context recognition. The design process needs to take into account the properties of a wearable environment in terms of sensor placement for data extraction, energy harvesting, comfort and easy integration into clothes and accessories. We suggest to encapsulate the system in an embroidery or a button. The study of a microsystem consisting of a light sensor, a microphone, an accelerometer, a microprocessor and a RF transceiver shows that it is feasible to integrate such a system in a button-like form of 12 mm diameter and 4 mm thickness. We discuss packaging and assembly aspects of such a system. Additionally, we argue that a solar cell on top of the button – together with a lithium polymer battery as energy storage – is capable to power the system even for a user who works predominantly indoors.

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  1. Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

    Nagendra B. Bharatula, Stijn Ossevoort, Mathias Stäger & Gerhard Tröster

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Bharatula, N.B., Ossevoort, S., Stäger, M., Tröster, G. (2004). Towards Wearable Autonomous Microsystems. In: Ferscha, A., Mattern, F. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24646-6_17

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