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MITEs: MIT Environmental Sensors
MITes: MIT Environmental Sensors

MITes are a flexible kit of wireless sensing devices for pervasive computing research in natural settings that have been developed at the Massaschusetts Institute of Technology. The sensors have been optimized for ease of use, ease of installation, affordability, and robustness to environmental conditions in complex spaces such as homes. The kit includes six environmental sensors: movement, movement tuned for object-usage-detection, light, temperature, proximity, and current sensing in electric appliances. The kit also includes five wearable sensors: onbody acceleration, heart rate, ultra-violet radiation exposure, RFID reader wristband, and location beacons. The sensors can be used simultaneously with a single receiver in the same environment. MITes are being used for acquisition of data in non-laboratory settings where real-time multi-modal sensor information is acquired simultaneously from several sensors worn on the body and up to several hundred sensors distributed in an environment.

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Emmanuel Munguia Tapia
Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, MIT Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emmanuel Munguia Tapia is a Ph.D candidate in the MIT Media Laboratory doing research with the MIT House_n group. His research effort is on developing systems that infer human activities and context from sensors placed ubiquitously in the environment and worn on the body and applying these algorithms for preventive health care in the home. Emmanuel's research interests include context-aware environments, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, novel sensor hardware, and machine learning and pattern recognition. He received his S.M. from MIT in 2003 working on activity inferencing and context awareness from sensor data, and a B.S degree (with honors) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the ESIME at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico in 2000. He has received a number of awards including the Best Graduating Engineer National Award, Mexico (2000), and the "Presea Lazaro Cardenas", the highest recognition to academic excellence given by the President of Mexico (2000). He has held summer internships at Intel Research Seattle and the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory.