A wireless architecture for distributed sensing/actuation and pre-processing with microsecond synchronization

We present the design of a distributed data acquisition system for passive and active multi-modal sensing that is capable of synchronized signal sampling within ±5 microseconds. The system is employed in a “wireless cortex” architecture for multi-modal cognitive scene analysis.

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