Merging smart wearable devices and wireless mesh networks for collaborative sensing

Wireless sensor networks have become one of the most productive and cost-effective ways of gathering data from the environment in a distributed and unattended fashion, and are considered as one of the key technologies of the twenty-first century in the field of pervasive systems, indeed contributing in the implementation of Internet-of-Things based ecosystems. However, the wide range of different hardware and software platforms, communication capabilities and data management techniques, makes the integration of heterogeneous technologies a must, so that the final success of the target deployment and the underlying service provision can be assured. In this way, the combination and interoperation of wearable technologies with wireless sensor networks is demonstrated in this work towards the implementation of urban collaborative sensing, particularly considering a twofold integration process: seamless connectivity among wireless mobile and deployable devices, as well as hardware-software embedded support for dynamic interaction with sensing/service capabilities.