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The multi-tiered system architecture
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Sleep and physical activity are human behaviors that play a major role in our health. Poor sleep or lack of physical activity have been found to increase health risks and reduce quality of life. The rapid adoption and evolution of pervasive computing systems, both in the health and wellness domain, are creating a new data-intensive context in which...
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... The toolkit has been developed using Java and Spring for the backend; ThymeLeaf, HTML and D3JS for the frontend and PostgreSQL as the database. Figure 1 shows the various components of the software platform -the multiple data providers with different ways to extract data from them and store into a secured centralized database; the analysis layer where algorithms are applied to the incoming physical activity data to label activity levels, and extract sleep metrics like sleep quality and sleep efficiency. All this data is presented to the users of the system, sleep experts or researchers, via a web UI where the data analysis is visualized to help them gain insights into the data subjects. ...
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