A wearable mobile sensor platform to assist fruit grading

Sensors (Basel). 2013 May 10;13(5):6109-40. doi: 10.3390/s130506109.

Abstract

Wearable computing is a form of ubiquitous computing that offers flexible and useful tools for users. Specifically, glove-based systems have been used in the last 30 years in a variety of applications, but mostly focusing on sensing people's attributes, such as finger bending and heart rate. In contrast, we propose in this work a novel flexible and reconfigurable instrumentation platform in the form of a glove, which can be used to analyze and measure attributes of fruits by just pointing or touching them with the proposed glove. An architecture for such a platform is designed and its application for intuitive fruit grading is also presented, including experimental results for several fruits.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Calibration
  • Fingers
  • Fruit / chemistry*
  • Gloves, Protective*
  • Humans
  • Miniaturization
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Pressure
  • Wireless Technology / instrumentation*