MoBio - A Mobile Application for Collecting Data from Sensors

Petr Ježek, Roman Mouček

2016

Abstract

There are a lot of sensors for monitoring human health and/or fitness level on the market. They facilitate collection of data from the human body and advanced devices even facilitate data transfer to remote servers where the collected data are further processed. While health data, obtained e.g. from accelerometers or chest straps, are collected rather frequently, brain electrophysiology data, obtained from surface electrodes, are still collected relatively rarely. However, integration and correlation of brain signals with other sensory data would be very interesting for next research of physical and mental health. Although capturing brain signals in real environment still faces technological difficulties, current development of common infrastructure seems to be useful. Then this article deals with various architectures and data formats used for storage and transfer of sensory data and their possible integration with existing neuroinformatics approaches. As a solution we introduced a terminology describing data from a limited collection of sensors. The terminology is implemented in the odML format and integrated in a proof-of-concept Android application. Data transfer, storage and visualisation as well as integration with a remote neuroinformatics resource are presented.

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in Harvard Style

Ježek P. and Mouček R. (2016). MoBio - A Mobile Application for Collecting Data from Sensors . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, (ICT4AGEINGWELL 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-180-9, pages 115-121. DOI: 10.5220/0005896901150121


in Bibtex Style

@conference{ict4awe16,
author={Petr Ježek and Roman Mouček},
title={MoBio - A Mobile Application for Collecting Data from Sensors},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, (ICT4AGEINGWELL 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={115-121},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005896901150121},
isbn={978-989-758-180-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, (ICT4AGEINGWELL 2016)
TI - MoBio - A Mobile Application for Collecting Data from Sensors
SN - 978-989-758-180-9
AU - Ježek P.
AU - Mouček R.
PY - 2016
SP - 115
EP - 121
DO - 10.5220/0005896901150121