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2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Using Height Sensors for Biometric Identification in Multi-resident Homes
Abstract. In this study, we evaluate the use of height for biometric identification of residents, by mounting ultrasonic distance sensors above the doorways in a home. Height senso...
Vijay Srinivasan, John A. Stankovic, Kamin Whiteho...
PERVASIVE
2010
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Tactile Wayfinder: Comparison of Tactile Waypoint Navigation with Commercial Pedestrian Navigation Systems
Abstract. In this paper we report on a field study comparing a commercial pedestrian navigation system to a tactile navigation system called Tactile Wayfinder. Similar to previous ...
Martin Pielot, Susanne Boll
PERVASIVE
2008
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
AnonySense: Opportunistic and Privacy-Preserving Context Collection
Opportunistic sensing allows applications to "task" mobile devices to measure context in a target region. For example, one could leverage sensorequipped vehicles to measu...
Apu Kapadia, Nikos Triandopoulos, Cory Cornelius, ...
PERVASIVE
2008
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Cooperative Techniques Supporting Sensor-Based People-Centric Inferencing
Abstract. People-centric sensor-based applications targeting mobile device users offer enormous potential. However, learning inference models in this setting is hampered by the lac...
Nicholas D. Lane, Hong Lu, Shane B. Eisenman, Andr...
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PERVASIVE
2008
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A fair and energy-efficient topology control protocol for wireless sensor networks
In energy constrained wireless sensor networks, energy conservation techniques are to be applied in order to maximize the system lifetime. We tackle the problem of increasing netw...
Rami Mochaourab, Waltenegus Dargie