The Urbanet Revolution: Sensor Power to the People!

With mobile devices becoming ubiquitous, the time is ripe to bring sensor data out of close-loop networks into the center of daily urban life. The Internet has become a great success because its applications appeal to regular people. This isn\´t the case with sensor networks, which are generally perceived as "something" remote in the forest or on the battlefield. With few exceptions, first-generation sensor networks address application-specific, static-sensor deployments to accurately monitor the sensed environment in real time.