Software and Hardware Requirements and Trade-Offs in Operating Systems for Wearables: A Tool to Improve Devices’ Performance

@article{Amorim2019SoftwareAH,
  title={Software and Hardware Requirements and Trade-Offs in Operating Systems for Wearables: A Tool to Improve Devices’ Performance},
  author={Vicente Jose Peixoto Amorim and Mateus C. Silva and Ricardo A. O. Oliveira},
  journal={Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)},
  year={2019},
  volume={19},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:129942167}
}
A software tool designed to create different versions of operating systems (OSs) fitting the specifications of wearable devices projects is presented, suggesting the viability of using the proposed solution when searching for performance improvements on wearables.

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