An agent-based signal processing in-node environment for real-time human activity monitoring based on wireless body sensor networks

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1147-1161

  Aiello, F ^a   Bellifemine, F L ^b   Fortino, G ^a   Galzarano, S ^a   Gravina, R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b TELECOM ITALIA   (Italy)

^c Telecom WSN Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

In node signal processing; Mobile Agents Platform for Sun SPOT; Real time human activity monitoring; Software agents; Wireless body sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER SENSOR; ACTIVITY MONITORING; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; AGENT BASED; AGENT FRAMEWORK; AGENT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; ASSISTED LIVING; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EMERGENCY DETECTION; EMOTIONAL RECOGNITION; FEATURE AGGREGATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; IN-NODE SIGNAL PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE GAMES; MONITORING PERFORMANCE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORK; SENSOR PLATFORM; WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HEALTH CARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MOBILE AGENTS; MONITORING; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; USER INTERFACES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 80052271194     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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