Distributed inferencing with ambient and wearable sensors

• Published in: Wireless communications and mobile computing Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 117 - 131
• Main Authors: Atallah, Louis, McIlwraith, Douglas, Thiemjarus, Surapa, Lo, Benny, Yang, Guang-Zhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.01.2012
• Subjects: ambient sensing; Bayesian networks; body sensor networks; distributed inference; factor graphs; inference; wearable sensing

Wireless sensor networks enable continuous and reliable data acquisition for real‐time monitoring in a variety of application areas. Due to the large amount of data collected and the potential complexity of emergent patterns, scalable and distributed reasoning is preferable when compared to centrali...