Title :
MetroNet: Case Study for Collaborative Data Sharing on the World Wide Web
Author :
Dickerson, Robert F. ; Lu, Jiakang ; Li, Jingyuan ; Chantree, Billy ; Jian Lu ; Stankovic, John A. ; Whitehouse, Kamin
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
Abstract :
We demonstrate MetroNet, which is an application that illustrates collaborative data sharing on the Wide Wide Web. MetroNet has two parts. First, our sensors gather data about pedestrian foot traffic in front of and into stores, which is made available online to shopkeepers. Second, this sensor data can be made public, at the discretion of the shopkeeper, for use by city planners, other shopkeepers, or residents of the city. MetroNet is an application through which we study fundamental problems of sharing data on the Web, such as search, data fusion, and privacy.
Keywords :
Internet; data privacy; groupware; road traffic; sensor fusion; town and country planning; MetroNet application; World Wide Web; city planners; collaborative data sharing; data fusion; data privacy; data search; pedestrian foot traffic; retail stores; sensor data; shopkeepers; Cities and towns; Data privacy; Displays; Foot; International collaboration; Monitoring; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Telecommunication traffic; Web sites; data fusion; data mining; data sharing; metronet; privacy; search; sensor networks; world wide sensor web;
Conference_Titel :
Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2008. IPSN '08. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
St. Louis, MO
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3157-1
DOI :
10.1109/IPSN.2008.68
