Bio-Inspired Multi-agent Collaboration for Urban Monitoring Applications

Vehicular sensor networks (VSNs) provide a collaborative sensing environment where mobile vehicles equipped with sensors of different nature (from chemical detectors to still/video cameras) inter-work to implement monitoring applications such as traffic reporting, environment monitoring, and distributed surveillance. In particular, there is an increasing interest in proactive urban monitoring where vehicles continuously sense events from streets, autonomously process sensed data (e.g., recognizing license plates), and possibly route messages to vehicles in their vicinity to achieve a common goal (e.g., to permit police agents to track the movements of specified cars). MobEyes is a middleware solution to support VSN-based proactive urban monitoring applications, where the agents (e.g., police cars) harvest metadata from regular VSNenabled vehicles. Since multiple agents collaborate in a typical urban sensing operation, it is critical to design a mechanism to effectively coordinate the...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: BIOWIRE
• Authors: Uichin Lee, Eugenio Magistretti, Mario Gerla, Paolo Bellavista, Pietro Liò, Kang-Won Lee
• Keywords: BIOWIRE 2007, Communications, Proactive Urban Monitoring, Urban Sensing, Vehicular Sensor Networks