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The BSNOS Platform: A Body Sensor Networks Targeted Operating System and Toolset

Authors:
Joshua Ellul
Benny Lo
Guang-Zhong Yang

Keywords: body sensor networks, operating systems

Abstract:
Body sensor networks face different challenges than those faced in traditional wireless sensor networks. Challenges faced include fewer, more accurate sensor nodes and an increased requirement of context awareness, however, body sensor networks are relieved from high scalability. Programming sensor networks, in general, can be a daunting task due to the limited computation, memory and energy resources available. Operating systems for wireless sensor networks have been proposed which focus on the challenges they face. We believe that an operating system and toolset which focuses primarily on the challenges and properties of body sensor networks could help ease the burden of programming body sensor network applications. In this paper, we present an operating system which is focused on facilitating body sensor network application development.

Pages: 381 to 386

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-144-1

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011