**This book provides the most up-to-date research and development on
wearable computing, wireless body sensor networks, wearable systems
integrated with mobile computing, wireless networking and cloud
computing
**This book has a specific focus on advanced methods for programming
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) based on the reference SPINE project. It
features an on-line website (http: //spine.deis.unical.it) to support
readers in developing their own BSN application/systems and covers new
emerging topics on BSNs such as collaborative BSNs, BSN design methods,
autonomic BSNs, integration of BSNs and pervasive environments, and
integration of BSNs with cloud computing. The book provides a
description of real BSN prototypes with the possibility to see on-line
demos and download the software to test them on specific sensor
platforms and includes case studies for more practical applications.
- Provides a future roadmap by learning advanced technology and open
research issues
- Gathers the background knowledge to tackle key problems, for which
solutions will enhance the evolution of next-generation wearable systems
- References the SPINE web site (http: //spine.deis.unical.it) that
accompanies the text
- Includes SPINE case studies and span topics like human activity
recognition, rehabilitation of elbow/knee, handshake detection, emotion
recognition systems
Wearable Systems and Body Sensor Networks: from modeling to
implementation is a great reference for systems architects,
practitioners, and product developers.
Giancarlo Fortino is currently an Associate Professor of Computer
Engineering (since 2006) at the Department of Electronics, Informatics
and Systems (DEIS) of the University of Calabria (Unical), Rende (CS),
Italy. He was recently nominated Guest Professor in Computer Engineering
of Wuhan University of Technology on April, 18 2012 (the term of
appointment is three years). His research interests include distributed
computing and networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless body sensor
networks, agent systems, agent oriented software engineering, streaming
content distribution networks, distributed multimedia systems, GRID
computing.
Raffaele Gravina received the B.Sc. and M.S. degrees both in
computer engineering from the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, in
2004 and 2007, respectively. Here he also received the Ph.D. degree in
computer engineering. He's now a Postdoctoral research fellow at
University of Calabria. His research interests are focused on high-level
programming methods for WSNs, specifically Wireless Body Sensor
Networks. He wrote almost 30 scientific/technical articles in the area
of the proposed Book. He is co-founder of SenSysCal S.r.l., a spin-off
company of the University of Calabria, and CTO of the wearable computing
area of the company.
Stefano Galzarano received the B.S. and M.S. degrees both in
computer engineering from the University of Calabria, Rende, Italy, in
2006 and 2009, respectively. He is currently pursuing a joint Ph.D.
degree in computer engineering with University of Calabria and Technical
University of Eindhoven (The Netherlands). His research interests are
focused on high-level programming methods for wireless sensor networks
and, specifically, novel methods and frameworks for autonomic wireless
body sensor networks.
