Field Research Cooperative Wearable Systems: Challenges in Requirements, Design and Validation

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 19; no. 20; p. 4417
• Main Authors: Silva, Mateus C, Amorim, Vicente J P, Ribeiro, Sérvio P, Oliveira, Ricardo A R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 12.10.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Algorithms; Architecture; Augmented reality; Computer architecture; Computer Communication Networks; cooperative wearable systems; Ecologists; Ecology; Energy consumption; field research; Field study; Humans; Internet of Things; Outdoor activities; Reproducibility of Results; Sensors; Software; Systems design; Wearable computers; wearable device requirements; Wearable Electronic Devices; wearable systems design; Wearable technology; Wireless networks; Wireless Technology; field research; cooperative wearable systems; wearable systems design; wearable device requirements
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s19204417

The widespread availability of wearable devices is evolving them into cooperative systems. Communication and distribution aspects such as the Internet of Things, Wireless Body Area Networks, and Local Wireless Networks provide the means to develop multi-device platforms. Nevertheless, the field research environment presents a specific feature set, which increases the difficulty in the adoption of this technology. In this text, we review the main aspects of Field Research Gears and Wearable Devices. This review is made aiming to understand how to create cooperative systems based on wearable devices directed to the Field Research Context. For a better understanding, we developed a case study in which we propose a cooperative system architecture and provide validation aspects. For this matter, we provide an overview of a previous device architecture and study an integration proposal.