Mobiscopes for Human Spaces

The proliferation of affordable mobile devices with processing and sensing capabilities, together with the rapid growth in ubiquitous network connectivity, herald an era of Mobiscopes; networked sensing applications that rely on multiple mobile sensors to accomplish global tasks. These distributed sensing systems extend the model of traditional sensor networks, introducing challenges in data management, data integrity, privacy, and network system design. While several applications that fit the above description exist in prior literature, they provide tailored one-time solutions to what essentially is the same set of problems. It is time to work towards a general architecture that identifies common challenges and provides a generalizable methodology for the design of future Mobiscopes. Towards that end, this paper surveys a variety of current and emerging mobile, networked, sensing applications; articulates their common challenges; and provides architectural guidelines and design direc...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: PERVASIVE
• Authors: Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Yaw Anokwa, Péter Boda, Jeff Burke, Deborah Estrin, Leonidas J. Guibas, Aman Kansal, Samuel Madden, Jim Reich
• Keywords: Affordable Mobile Devices, Applied Computing, Common Challenges, PERVASIVE 2007, Sensing