A reconfigurable wireless sensor fusion system for environment and health research

This paper describes a reconfigurable sensor system that can be configured to include a wide range of sensors to meet various environmental and health research detection needs. The system is battery powered with a flexible and expandable power sub-system that can supply sensors with varying power requirements. Other features, such as local/remote removable flash memory storage, real-time clock, and mesh wireless networking are also included. The wireless networking allows an area or a group of subjects to be studied simultaneously, making it possible for the data to be fused and studied more effectively. It is envisioned that this system can increase the effectiveness of environmental and health research by providing the capability to combine data using the desired fusion algorithms. At the writing of this paper, this sensor system has CO, CO2, pressure, humidity, temperature, 3-axis accelerometer, GPS, and noise-level sensors.

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