The Rise of People-Centric Sensing

Author

Campbell, Andrew T. ; Eisenman, Shane B. ; Lane, Nicholas D. ; Miluzzo, Emiliano ; Peterson, Ronald A. ; Lu, Hong ; Zheng, Xiao ; Musolesi, Mirco ; Fodor, Kristof ; Ahn, Gahng-Seop

Author_Institution

Dartmouth Coll., Hanover, NH

Volume

12

Issue

4

fYear

2008

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

21

Abstract

Technological advances in sensing, computation, storage, and communications will turn the near-ubiquitous mobile phone into a global mobile sensing device. People-centric sensing will help drive this trend by 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. It juxtaposes the traditional view of mesh sensor networks with one in which people, carrying mobile devices, enable opportunistic sensing coverage. 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

social aspects of automation; ubiquitous computing; global mobile sensing device; mesh sensor networks; mobile devices; near-ubiquitous mobile phone; people-centric sensing; social sensing; Educational institutions; Humans; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Portable media players; Prototypes; Visualization; Wireless sensor networks; Wi-Fi; mesh networking; people-centric sensing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2008.90

Filename

4557974