Design of a Wearable Sensor Badge for Smart Kindergarten

  • Authors:
  • A. Savvides

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ISWC '02 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We describe the system design of "Smart Kindergarten",a smart problem solving environment for earlychildhood education. Two crucial building blocks thatmake up Smart Kindergarten are iBadge, a lightweightpower-aware sensor-instrumented badge, and Sylph, asensor middleware infrastructure. Equipped with sensors,radio, and DSP, iBadge has been designed to be worn bykids and teachers to unobtrusively capture the interactionbetween the kids and their surroundings. The captureddata is then wirelessly transmitted to Sylph, a middlewareinfrastructure, which provides means of accessing thedata in coherent and user-friendly manner. In this paper,we present the design challenges of iBadge and Sylph andour efforts in integrating these two systems.