Affiliation:
1. Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil
Abstract
Wearable devices have increasingly become popular in recent years. Devices attached to users body remotely monitor his daily activities/health. Although some of these devices are pretty simple, others make use of an operating system to manage memory, resources, tasks, and any user interaction. Some of them were not initially designed and developed for this purpose, having a poor performance requiring the use of more resources or better hardware. This chapter presents a characterization of wearable devices considering the operating systems area. Some constraints of this context were designed to analyze the operating system's execution when inserted into a wearable device. Data presented at the end shows that there is a lack of performance in specific areas, letting to conclude that improvements should be made.