Paper Info
Title
Safety services for children: a wearable sensor vest with wireless charging
Abstract
Wearable sensors constitute an increasing market in providing various promising opportunities for improving and controlling safety issues for children in day care and schools. This paper presents the technological enablers and requirements for building a complete end-to-end energy-efficient safety system. Our work introduces a proof-of-concept for a wearable sensor vest with integrated wireless charging, designed to enhance the security of children. The wireless charging takes place in the ordinary repository for the vests, such as in a wardrobe or a coat rack, without requiring any specific actions from the user. The developed sensor vest provides information about the location and well-being of children, based on received signal strength indication, global positioning system, accelerometer, and temperature sensors. This paper also discusses the experiences of the “safety service for children” school pilot, which utilized various sensors with end-to-end applications. Piloting and technological implementations are based on a participatory study conducted among children, teachers, and parents, to gain important knowledge and understanding about the real user needs and service system usability requirements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s00779-015-0838-z
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sensor, Wireless charging, Wearable computing, Participatory design, Pilot, Children
System safety,Wireless,Participatory design,Received signal strength indication,Computer science,Wearable computer,Usability,Service system,Implementation,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
5-6
1617-4917
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.44
19
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mirjami Jutila1101.98
Esko Strömmer2548.50
Mari Ervasti3547.24
Mika Hillukkala491.62
Pekka Karhula581.92
Juhani Laitakari6162.37