Mobile Personal Sensing Systems: Applications and Architecture

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 18:39

Mobile Personal Sensing systems leveraging mobile phones offer unprecedented observational capacity at the scale of the individual; at the same time they are remarkably scalable and affordable given the wide proliferation of cellular phone infrastructure and consumer devices that incorporate location services such as GPS, digital imagers, bluetooth short-range radios, and easy programmability. These systems promise to become a very effective “make a case” technology to address a range of civic concerns, from public health to safety and sustainability…at the same time that they will push even further on our society’s concept of privacy and private space. Many of the architectural lessons learned through the design and deployment of environmental sensing systems appear applicable to these systems as well. As with environmental sensing, multiscale data and models are essential to provide interpretive context for individual data streams, and mobility is essential to achieve scalability and coverage. Moreover decentralized processing will be critical to support privacy and personal control. In this talk I will draw upon work-in-progress at the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA.