Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci., Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, CT
Abstract :
Technological advances in sensing, computation, storage, and communications will turn the ubiquitous mobile phone into a global mobile sensing device carried by billions of people world-wide. Sensing will be people- centric, enabling a different way to sense, learn, visualize, and share information about ourselves, friends, communities, the way we live, and the world we live in. People-centric sensing juxtaposes the traditional view of small-scale, mote-based sensor networks with one in which people, carrying sensor-enabled mobile phones, enable opportunistic sensing coverage - ultimately, leading to the dawn of a global mobile sensor network. In the MetroSense Project´s vision of people-centric sensing, users are the key architectural system component, enabling a host of new application areas such as personal, public, and social sensing.
Keywords :
mobile computing; mobile handsets; wireless sensor networks; MetroSense Project; architectural system component; global mobile sensing device; global mobile sensor network; mote-based sensor networks; multihop; opportunistic sensing coverage; people-centric sensing; sensor-enabled mobile phones; ubiquitous mobile phone; Biosensors; Computer science; Computer security; Educational institutions; Engineering profession; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Pervasive computing; Spread spectrum communication; Wireless sensor networks;
