Design and implementation of a real-time geographical query answering system

Over the years the mobile phones has evolved beyond being a platform for only making and receiving telephones calls but have become a ubiquitous medium supporting various forms of retrieving information, peer-to-peer interactions, and shared collaboration. Many studies also suggest significant future growth in the number of smart device users, the devices´ hardware features, and the broadband bandwidth availability. With these trends, we envision a novel information retrieving and information-sharing platform, which views the users with mobile devices and being willing to accept crowdsourcing tasks as sensors. With the idea, in this demonstration, we present TeleEye, a real-time geographic information inquiring system based on the mobile crowdsourcing. The TeleEye system supports novel information inquiring services beyond traditional geospatial information system, namely, a real-time information, such as if a tennis court is occupied now. This paper summarize the design, the architecture, research issues, and the progress towards the TeleEye system design.