Demo abstract: SEPTIMU — Continuous in-situ human wellness monitoring and feedback using sensors embedded in earphones

Author

Dezhi Hong ; Ben Zhang ; Qiang Li ; Nirjon, Shahriar ; Dickerson, Robert ; Guobin Shen ; Xiaofan Jiang ; Stankovic, John A.

Author_Institution

Microsoft Res. Asia, Beijing, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

160

Abstract

A mobile phone, as a pervasive device, has great potential in human wellness monitoring. In this demo, we first present the design and implementation of our hardware - SEPTIMU. SEPTIMU consists of a small baseboard and a pair of tiny sensor boards embedded inside conventional earphones. The baseboard provides power conversion and data communication through the normal audio jack interface. The embedded sensor board is 1×1cm² and integrates 3-axis accelerometer, gyroscope, thermometer, photodiode and microphone. Secondly, we evaluate SEPTIMU using a mobile application that continuously monitors body posture and provides feedback to the user.

Keywords

accelerometers; biomechanics; biomedical electronics; biomedical telemetry; body sensor networks; earphones; feedback; gyroscopes; intelligent sensors; microphones; patient monitoring; photodiodes; power conversion; smart phones; thermometers; 3-axis accelerometer; SEPTIMU; baseboard; body posture monitoring; continuous in-situ human wellness feedback; continuous in-situ human wellness monitoring; conventional earphones; data communication; embedded sensor board; gyroscope; hardware; microphone; mobile application; mobile phone; normal audio jack interface; pervasive device; photodiode; power conversion; sensor boards; thermometer; Accelerometers; Headphones; Lifting equipment; Microphones; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Sensors; Earphone; HiJack; Mobile Sensing, In; situ Monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920929

Filename

6920929