Indoor monitoring of respiratory distress triggering factors using a wireless sensing network and a smart phone

2009 IEEE Intrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, I2MTC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 451-456

  Postolache, O ^a   Girao P ^a   Dias Pereira, M ^b   Ferraria, G ^b   Barroso, N ^b   Postolache, G ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

^c Universidade Atlantica   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Air quality; Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Mobile programing; Sensing network

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONS; AIR QUALITY PARAMETERS; ALARM GENERATION; BLUETOOTH CONNECTIONS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DATA STORAGE; DATA-READING; DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE PROGRAMING; MOBILE SOFTWARES; POLLUTANT GAS; PRIMARY DATA; RISK FACTORS; SENSING NETWORKS; SMART PHONES; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TRIGGERING FACTORS; USER FRIENDLY; WIRELESS SENSING;

AIR QUALITY; BLUETOOTH; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA PROCESSING; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MONITORING; POLLUTION DETECTION; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE CIRCUITS; TELEPHONE SETS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70449923869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2009.5168491     Document Type: Conference Paper

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