7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Research Article

CRNTC+: A smartphone-based sensor processing framework for prototyping personal healthcare applications

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252039,
        author={Gabriele Spina and Frank Roberts and Jens Weppner and Paul Lukowicz and Oliver Amft},
        title={CRNTC+: A smartphone-based sensor processing framework for prototyping personal healthcare applications},
        proceedings={7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH},
        year={2013},
        month={5},
        keywords={smartphone application activity recognition wearable sensors data mining information retrieval},
        doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252039}
    }
    
  • Gabriele Spina
    Frank Roberts
    Jens Weppner
    Paul Lukowicz
    Oliver Amft
    Year: 2013
    CRNTC+: A smartphone-based sensor processing framework for prototyping personal healthcare applications
    PERVASIVEHEALTH
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252039
Gabriele Spina1,*, Frank Roberts1, Jens Weppner2, Paul Lukowicz2, Oliver Amft1
  • 1: TU Eindhoven
  • 2: DFKI/University of Kaiserslautern
*Contact email: g.spina@tue.nl

Abstract

While smartphone apps for health monitoring and patient support are of great interest to care providers and patients alike, suitable development and evaluation frameworks are currently lacking. We present and evaluate an Android open-source smartphone framework CRNTC+ for sensors data acquisition, signal processing, pattern analysis, interaction and feedback, based on the Context Recognition Network Toolbox (CRNT). CRNTC+ extends the original CRNT by providing components to read smartphone and external sensor data, supporting annotations, and various output components. Here, we formally evaluate CRNTC+ regarding extensibility, scalability, and energy consumption. We present study results where CRNTC+ was deployed in an application to detect epileptic seizures. Results showed that CRNTC+ is well-suited for prototyping health applications in real-life, where online sensor data recording and recognition is needed.