Citizen Sensors for SHM: Use of Accelerometer Data from Smartphones

M Feng, Y Fukuda, M Mizuta, E Ozer - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Ubiquitous smartphones have created a significant opportunity to form a low-cost wireless
Citizen Sensor network and produce big data for monitoring structural integrity and safety …

Reducing multi-hop calibration errors in large-scale mobile sensor networks

O Saukh, D Hasenfratz, L Thiele - Proceedings of the 14th International …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Frequent sensor calibration is essential in sensor networks with low-cost sensors. We exploit
the fact that temporally and spatially close measurements of different sensors measuring the …

Coresets for nonparametric estimation-the case of DP-means

O Bachem, M Lucic, A Krause - International Conference on …, 2015 - proceedings.mlr.press
Scalable training of Bayesian nonparametric models is a notoriously difficult challenge. We
explore the use of coresets-a data summarization technique originating from computational …

Semadroid: A privacy-aware sensor management framework for smartphones

Z Xu, S Zhu - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Data and …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
While mobile sensing applications are booming, the sensor management mechanisms in
current smartphone operating systems are left behind--they are incomprehensive and …

Spatial computing

S Shekhar, SK Feiner, WG Aref - Communications of the ACM, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Spatial computing Page 1 72 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JANUARY 2016 | VOL.
59 | NO. 1 DOI:10.1145/2756547 Knowing where you are in space and time promises a …

Big data for IoT services in smart cities

V Moreno-Cano, F Terroso-Saenz… - 2015 IEEE 2nd …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes the benefits of big data for smart cities and the potential of the
knowledge discovery from sensed data. Big data enables real-time systems monitoring …

A sensing coverage analysis of a route control method for vehicular crowd sensing

O Masutani - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
General vehicles have much potential to contribute to city surveillance in a context of Smart
City. Vehicular crowd sensing is essential for reasonable and sustainable city surveillance …

“Friend is treasure”: exploring and exploiting mobile social contacts for efficient task offloading

P Yang, Q Li, Y Yan, XY Li, Y Xiong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the task offloading issue in mobile social networks. Although the
“d-choice” paradigm in “ball and bin” theory had shown the power of random choice in load …

Community based sensing: A test bed for environment air quality monitoring using smartphone paired sensors

H Jafari, X Li, L Qian, Y Chen - 2015 36th IEEE Sarnoff …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Awareness of our surrounding environment is very important. Traditional stationary air
quality and pollution monitoring systems which installed in dedicated locations are usually …

From GPS and virtual globes to spatial computing-2020

S Shekhar, S Feiner, WG Aref - GeoInformatica, 2015 - Springer
Spatial computing is a set of ideas, solutions, tools, technologies, and systems that transform
our lives with a new prospect of understanding, navigating, visualizing and using locations …