Mobility in Public indoor urban spaces: An Asian perspective

Like Singapore, the daily lifestyles of consumers in many other large Asian cities often revolves around densely populated, largely-indoor, public spaces, such as malls, train stations and office/college campuses. This talk will first introduce the LiveLabs Platform, a unique large-scale mobile-based services experimentation testbed being deployed at multiple places in Singapore, including a university campus, shopping malls, an airport terminal and a leisure resort. I will then discuss the unique challenges and opportunities (both technical and business) that arise from the mobility of hundreds, and even thousands, of individuals concurrently occupying these indoor spaces. These challenges and opportunities include a) the need to support real-time, accurate and continuous indoor location tracking, b) the possibility of identifying the dynamics of human queues and c) the ability to reduce the energy overheads of large-scale mobile sensing & analytics.