The Snap! toolkit : a model for pluggable monitoring
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Lau, Matthew B. (Matthew Bock Wor), 1974-![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/69204/47921886-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences.
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Michael J. Hawley.
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Thousands of engineering hours have been spent duplicating efforts as independent groups, each toward their own application, all build the core parts of a body monitoring system. A search of the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database on the words "physiology" and "monitoring" returns a list of 66,461 documents from 1966 to present. This thesis describes the Snap! sensor architecture, a toolkit designed to address this problem. It provides a set of modules and interconnect protocols to give the system designer a foundation from which to build embedded sensor devices. By defining a set of standards that maximize both modularity and flexibility, Snap! has eliminated the need to constantly rebuild the fundamental pieces of a monitor. Because of its organization, Snap! is particularly suited to the rapid prototyping of experimental systems.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning. Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 51-52).
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2000Department
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Architecture. Program In Media Arts and Sciences.