Smartphones for distributed multimode sensing: biological and environmental sensing and analysis

Tyler Feitshans; Robert Williams

doi:10.1117/12.2016350

22 May 2013 Smartphones for distributed multimode sensing: biological and environmental sensing and analysis

Tyler Feitshans, Robert Williams

Proceedings Volume 8742, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR IV; 874212 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2016350
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Active and Agile Environmental and Biological sensing are becoming obligatory to generate prompt warnings for the troops and law enforcements conducting missions in hostile environments. The traditional static sensing mesh networks which provide a coarse-grained (far-field) measurement of the environmental conditions like air quality, radiation , CO₂, etc … would not serve the dynamic and localized changes in the environment, which requires a fine-grained (near-field) sensing solutions. Further, sensing the biological conditions of (healthy and injured) personnel in a contaminated environment and providing a personalized analysis of the life-threatening conditions in real-time would greatly aid the success of the mission. In this vein, under SATE and YATE programs, the research team at AFRL Tec^Edge Discovery labs had demonstrated the feasibility of developing Smartphone applications , that employ a suite of external environmental and biological sensors, which provide fine-grained and customized sensing in real-time fashion. In its current state, these smartphone applications leverage a custom designed modular standalone embedded platform (with external sensors) that can be integrated seamlessly with Smartphones for sensing and further provides connectivity to a back-end data architecture for archiving, analysis and dissemination of real-time alerts. Additionally, the developed smartphone applications have been successfully tested in the field with varied environmental sensors to sense humidity, CO₂/CO, wind, etc…, ; and with varied biological sensors to sense body temperature and pulse with apt real-time analysis

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Tyler Feitshans and Robert Williams "Smartphones for distributed multimode sensing: biological and environmental sensing and analysis", Proc. SPIE 8742, Ground/Air Multisensor Interoperability, Integration, and Networking for Persistent ISR IV, 874212 (22 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2016350

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