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BODYNETS 2018: 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks pp 381–389Cite as

Virtual Machine Execution for Wearables Based on WebAssembly

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Today, the programming of a complete wearable sensor system requires writing code in different programming languages for the different parts of the systems, such as the wearable sensor platform itself, the gateway, the back-end server, and the client app. In this paper, we propose to use WebAssembly, which is a simple but powerful virtual machine standard already supported by all major web browsers. We show that it is possible to implement a WebAssembly interpreter for embedded systems, such as the Texas Instruments CC2652R system-on-chip and this enables the same code to execute in all parts of the systems. In our proof-of-concept implementation, we use Bluetooth low energy, which means that smartphones can communicate with and program our device without the need for special hardware.

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge, Sweden

    Martin Jacobsson & Jonas Willén

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  1. Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Chika Sugimoto

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden

    Hamed Farhadi

  3. Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Matti Hämäläinen

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Jacobsson, M., Willén, J. (2020). Virtual Machine Execution for Wearables Based on WebAssembly. In: Sugimoto, C., Farhadi, H., Hämäläinen, M. (eds) 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks . BODYNETS 2018. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29897-5_33

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