Sensor Networks for Emergency Response: Challenges and Opportunities
IEEE Pervasive Computing
On the performance of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.15.4 radios in a body area network
BodyNets '08 Proceedings of the ICST 3rd international conference on Body area networks
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IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Time synchronization in sensor networks: a survey
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
A context-management framework for telemedicine: an emergency medicine case study
WH '10 Wireless Health 2010
Out of the lab and into the fray: towards modeling emotion in everyday life
Pervasive'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Pervasive Computing
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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) - Special Section on Wireless Health Systems, On-Chip and Off-Chip Network Architectures
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Emerging context aware applications call for new networking technologies to enable rapid development of integrated solutions that gather, process and store context from a diverse set of sensors. We examine Bluetooth in the context of enabling emerging classes of context aware applications, such as healthcare, fitness, gaming, etc., using off-the-shelf (OTS) products. While Bluetooth is widely used today, its applicability to this new class of applications is not widely understood and applications that use Bluetooth could suffer from inconsistent usages and poor performance as a result. We investigate and report the challenges of implementing solutions that use software and OTS products based on existing Bluetooth standards. We also present performance analysis through experimentations to highlight some of the issues discussed in the paper. Based on our experience from building Bluetooth based sensing solutions, we make informed recommendations for modifications in the Bluetooth standard and highlight areas where new standards are required.