Towards mobility data science (vision paper)

M Mokbel, M Sakr, L Xiong, A Züfle, J Almeida… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Mobility data captures the locations of moving objects such as humans, animals, and cars.
With the availability of GPS-equipped mobile devices and other inexpensive location …

Development and evaluation of a low-cost WiFi media access control scanner as traffic sensor

SS Patra, B Muthurajan, BR Chilukuri… - 2019 11th International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent digitalization has led to a significant increase in Data usage and WiFi penetration
rates across the globe. WiFi Media Access Control (MAC) data, allows for unannounced and …

Pazl: A mobile crowdsensing based indoor WiFi monitoring system

V Radu, L Kriara, MK Marina - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WiFi in indoor environments exhibits spatio-temporal variations in terms of coverage and
interference in typical WLAN deployments with multiple APs, motivating the need for …

HuMAn: Human movement analytics via WiFi probes

G Pipelidis, N Tsiamitros, M Kessner… - 2019 IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe our approach that enables spatial human analytics using WiFi
probes. Our approach works as follows: we first set up our beacons in the area. Then, we …

Analysis of the pattern and intensity of urban activities through aggregate cellphone usage

MG Demissie, G Correia, C Bento - Transportmetrica A: transport …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This study applies passive mobile positioning data such as Call Volume, Handover, and
Erlang to detect the spatiotemporal distributions of urban activities. We obtained hourly …

Spatiotemporal data from mobile phones for personal mobility assessment

Z Smoreda, AM Olteanu-Raimond… - … survey methods: best …, 2013 - emerald.com
Purpose—In this chapter, we will review several alternative methods of collecting data from
mobile phones for human mobility analysis. We propose considering cellular network …

Discovering events in the city via mobile network analysis

L Ferrari, M Mamei, M Colonna - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and …, 2014 - Springer
Can we automatically identify relevant places and events happening in the city from the
analysis of mobile network use? In this paper we present a methodology to discover events …

Beanstalk: a community based passive wi-fi tracking system for analysing tourism dynamics

N Nunes, M Ribeiro, C Prandi, V Nisi - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents Beanstalk, an interactive platform to assist communities in easily
running systematic analysis of mobility patterns of tourists at their destinations, contributing …

A visual analytics approach for extracting spatio-temporal urban mobility information from mobile network traffic

G Sagl, M Loidl, E Beinat - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2012 - mdpi.com
In this paper we present a visual analytics approach for deriving spatio-temporal patterns of
collective human mobility from a vast mobile network traffic data set. More than 88 million …

A system based on the internet of things for real-time particle monitoring in buildings

G Marques, C Roque Ferreira, R Pitarma - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Occupational health can be strongly influenced by the indoor environment as people spend
90% of their time indoors. Although indoor air quality (IAQ) is not typically monitored, IAQ …