BeTelGeuse: a tool for Bluetooth data gathering

  • Authors:
  • Petteri Nurmi;Joonas Kukkonen;Eemil Lagerspetz;Jukka Suomela;Patrik Floréen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In ubiquitous computing, activity-related data is typically gathered using customized sensing equipment that give physiological measurements. Unfortunately, such systems are often proprietary or expensive to obtain. Recently, the decrease in the prices of Bluetooth chips has made Bluetooth sensors a viable alternative. In previous research, various systems for gathering data from Bluetooth sensors have been proposed, but they are usually limited to a specific set of sensors or to a specific runtime platform. To address these shortcomings, we have developed BeTelGeuse, a tool for Bluetooth data gathering. BeTelGeuse turns a standard mobile device such as a cellular phone into a relay node which gathers data from a body area network over Bluetooth, and forwards it to a remote server over a mobile data service such as GPRS.