MobiCon: A Mobile Context-Monitoring Platform

Youngki Lee, S.S. Iyengar, Chulhong Min, Younghyun Ju, Seungwoo Kang, Taiwoo Park, Jinwon Lee, Yunseok Rhee, and Junehwa Song

Smart mobile devices are the gateway for personal services in the emerging pervasive environment,
enabling context-aware applications involving personal sensor networks with sensor devices on the
human body and/or surrounding spaces. Diverse sensors function as tools applications use to acquire
user context, or current individual status, without user intervention (see Table 1); for example, physical
contexts (such as heart rate) are recognized through biomedical devices (such as electrocardiogram,
or ECG, galvanic skin response, or GSR, and blood volume pulse, or BVP, sensors) and gait is derived
through accelerometers and gyroscopes. Likewise, environmental status can be obtained from light/
temperature/dust sensors, GPS, RFID, and related networks. Diverse contexts enable mobile applications
to proactively provide users customized personal services. Such applications are emerging
in diverse research domains, including health care, elderly support,dietary monitoring, daily life assistance,
and sports training.
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