Field Research Cooperative Wearable Systems: Challenges in Requirements, Design and Validation.

Mateus C Silva,Vicente J P Amorim,Sérvio P Ribeiro,Ricardo A R Oliveira

doi:10.3390/s19204417

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Abstract

The widespread availability of wearable devices is evolving them into cooperative systems. Communication and distribution aspects such as the Internet of Things, Wireless Body Area Networks, and Local Wireless Networks provide the means to develop multi-device platforms. Nevertheless, the field research environment presents a specific feature set, which increases the difficulty in the adoption of this technology. In this text, we review the main aspects of Field Research Gears and Wearable Devices. This review is made aiming to understand how to create cooperative systems based on wearable devices directed to the Field Research Context. For a better understanding, we developed a case study in which we propose a cooperative system architecture and provide validation aspects. For this matter, we provide an overview of a previous device architecture and study an integration proposal.

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Wearable devices are trending topics in different areas such as healthcare and activity recognition [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], sports [8,9], education [10,11], industry [12,13], human–computer interaction [14] and other areas
Before studying the concepts involved in Field Research Cooperative Wearable Devices, it is crucial to understand the most significant features of this area
We presented the validation test set for the proposed case-study

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Wearable devices are trending topics in different areas such as healthcare and activity recognition [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], sports [8,9], education [10,11], industry [12,13], human–computer interaction [14] and other areas. The rise of new concepts like the Internet of Things (IoT) [15,16,17] and Industry 4.0 [18] along with hardware miniaturization allow for the development of novel devices and solutions. The communication aspect on wearable systems is an important aspect on novel developed solutions [19,20]. Before studying the concepts involved in Field Research Cooperative Wearable Devices, it is crucial to understand the most significant features of this area. It is necessary to provide an overview of how wearable solutions are used in the studied context. We need to present this work’s scope, objectives, and contributions

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