Towards a BSN-based gesture interface for intelligent home applications

This paper presents an attempt towards the development of a hand gesture-based interface for intelligent home applications using body sensor networks (BSNs). The system being developed consists of four main components namely BSN sensor gloves as the input devices, a software prototype for facilitating mappings of sensory signals onto different commands, a model for automatic gesture recognition and a relay-board for demonstrating device control output. Our current results include the first version of software prototype and real-time recognition of simple gesture commands from signals acquired using the BSN-based flex-sensor glove.