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Body sensor networks: can we use them?

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Pedro Brandão,

Jean BaconAuthors Info & Claims

M-PAC '09: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1657127.1657131

Published: 30 November 2009 Publication History

Abstract

A BSN is a heterogeneous environment populated with different types of sensors. As such it needs a framework to abstract to applications the underlying sensor resources they need to get the information from. Such framework (a middleware), should allow applications to issue information requests with a set of requirements to be met. This would then be translated into sensor resource access(es) while trying to abide by the requirements. In this paper we describe an architecture proposal for such a middleware and an implementation overview of a first prototype. We focus on the first layer needed to provide an abstraction to the resources.

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Seeger CLaerhoven KSauer JBuchmann A(2013)A Publish/Subscribe Middleware for Body and Ambient Sensor Networks that Mediates between Sensors and ApplicationsProceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics10.1109/ICHI.2013.30(199-208)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICHI.2013.30
Brandão PBalasingham I(2012)Modelling correlations for body sensor network informationProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Body Area Networks10.5555/2442691.2442714(89-95)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2442691.2442714
Rehunathan DBhatti S(2010)Application of virtual mobile networking to real-time patient monitoring2010 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference10.1109/ATNAC.2010.5679557(124-129)Online publication date: Oct-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/ATNAC.2010.5679557

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M-PAC '09: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing

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ISBN:9781605588490

DOI:10.1145/1657127

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Seeger CLaerhoven KSauer JBuchmann A(2013)A Publish/Subscribe Middleware for Body and Ambient Sensor Networks that Mediates between Sensors and ApplicationsProceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics10.1109/ICHI.2013.30(199-208)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICHI.2013.30
Brandão PBalasingham I(2012)Modelling correlations for body sensor network informationProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Body Area Networks10.5555/2442691.2442714(89-95)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2442691.2442714
Rehunathan DBhatti S(2010)Application of virtual mobile networking to real-time patient monitoring2010 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference10.1109/ATNAC.2010.5679557(124-129)Online publication date: Oct-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/ATNAC.2010.5679557

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