Enabling Effective Programming and Flexible Management of Efficient Body Sensor Network Applications

Wireless body sensor networks (BSNs) possess enormous potential for changing people's daily lives. They can enhance many human-centered application domains such as m-Health, sport and wellness, and human-centered applications that involve physical/virtual social interactions. However, there are...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on human-machine systems Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 115 - 133
Main Authors: Fortino, G., Giannantonio, R., Gravina, R., Kuryloski, P., Jafari, R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York, NY IEEE 01.01.2013
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical monitoring
Body sensor networks
Computer programs
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Computerized, statistical medical data processing and models in biomedicine
Design methods
Exact sciences and technology
Hardware
human-centered applications
Management
Medical computing and teaching
Medical sciences
Monitoring
Networks
Programming
Programming theory
Radiocommunications
sensor programming frameworks
Sensors
signal processing in node environment (SPINE)
Software
Spine
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Theoretical computing
wireless body sensor networks (BSNs)
Software development
Computer peripheral
Spine
Feedback regulation
Control synthesis
Deformable body
Open source software
Sport
Performance requirement
Efficiency
human-centered applications
sensor programming frameworks
Computer aided design
Monitoring
Human
Health
Measurement sensor
Abstraction
Middleware
wireless body sensor networks (BSNs)
Design methods
Social interaction
Open systems
User requirement
Signal processing
Rapid prototyping
Wireless network
signal processing in node environment (SPINE)
Sensor array
Mobile computing
ISSN:2168-2291, 2168-2305
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Summary:Wireless body sensor networks (BSNs) possess enormous potential for changing people's daily lives. They can enhance many human-centered application domains such as m-Health, sport and wellness, and human-centered applications that involve physical/virtual social interactions. However, there are still challenging issues that limit their wide diffusion in real life: primarily, the programming complexity of these systems, due to the lack of high-level software abstractions, and the hardware constraints of wearable devices. In contrast with low-level programming and general-purpose middleware, domain-specific frameworks are an emerging programming paradigm designed to fulfill the lack of suitable BSN programming support with proper abstraction layers. This paper analyzes the most important requirements for an effective BSN-specific software framework, enabling efficient signal-processing applications. Specifically, we present signal processing in node environment (SPINE), an open-source programming framework, designed to support rapid and flexible prototyping and management of BSN applications. We describe how SPINE efficiently addresses the identified requirements while providing performance analysis on the most common hardware/software sensor platforms. We also report a few high-impact BSN applications that have been entirely implemented using SPINE to demonstrate practical examples of its effectiveness and flexibility. This development experience has notably led to the definition of a SPINE-based design methodology for BSN applications. Finally, lessons learned from the development of such applications and from feedback received by the SPINE community are discussed.
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ISSN:2168-2291
2168-2305
DOI:10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2215852