The Role of Data Storage in the Design of Wearable Expert Systems

Wearable technologies are transforming research in software and knowledge engineering research fields. In particular, expert systems have the opportunity to manage knowledge bases varying according to real-time data collected by position sensors, movement sensors, and so on. This opportunity launches a series of challenges, from the role of network technologies to allow reliable connection between applications and sensors to the definition of functions and methods to assess the quality and reliability of gathered data. In this paper, we reflect about the last point, presenting recent reflections on the wearable environment notion. An architecture for the reliable acquisition of data in the IoT context is proposed, together with first experiments conducted to evaluate its effectiveness in improving the quality of data elaborated by applications.