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In this paper we focus on the problem of human activity recognition without identification of the individuals in a scene. We consider using Wi-Fi signals to detect certain human mobility behaviors such as stationary, walking, or running. The main objective is to successfully detect these behaviors for the individuals and based on that enable detection of the crowd's overall mobility behavior. We propose...
As mobile crowdsourcing techniques are steering many smart-city and Internet-of-Things applications, a new challenge of signal source localization problem arises, which is to infer the locations of signal sources based on crowdsourced data. It will benefit real-world applications such as WiFi advisory systems by locating WiFi access points and urban noise monitoring systems by locating noise sources...
As crowdsourcing using sensor-enabled smartphones boosted the confluence of human mobility and ambient network information, it opens up more opportunities for many promising crowd-centric application systems. This paper considers a WiFi advisory system, where crowdsourcing technology is used to gather information of wireless networks for understanding wireless network capability better including the...
As crowd-centric applications have attracted a lot of attention, this work exploits the crowdsourcing technologies to collect and share user experience of WiFi hotspots in an urban area. To address the trust issue, we incorporate an endorsement network into the system, where users can endorse others based on the reviews submitted by themselves. With the incentive endorsement network, our system can...
This paper exploits smartphones to design a transportation activity survey system that investigates when, where and how people travel in an urban area. In such a system, the essential requirement is collecting and processing big data which will raise two critical issues, energy-conservation and scalability. To address the former issue, the GPS sleeping interval of a smart-phone is controlled by the...
Participatory sensing has become a promising data collection approach to crowdsourcing data from multi-modal data sources. This paper proposes a generic participatory sensing framework that consists of a set of well-defined modules in support of diverse use cases. This framework incorporates a concept of “human-as-a-sensor” into participatory sensing and allows the public crowd to contribute human...
In the past two decades, a lot of research activities have been dedicated to the fields of mobile ad hoc network (MANET) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). More recently, the cyber physical system (CPS) has emerged as a promising direction to enrich the interactions between physical and virtual worlds. In this article, we first review some research activities in WSN, including networking issues and...
An inherent concern for a wireless sensor network (WSN) is the unbalanced energy consumption problem, where sensors closer to the sink are more likely to exhaust their energy faster than other nodes. To mitigate this problem, this paper considers including some resource-rich mobile nodes, called mobile data-pumps, to conduct data relaying from static sensors to the sink. The network thus becomes a...
Following the trend of miniature intelligent sensing, wearing small, integrated wireless sensor nodes, such as one with accelerometers and compasses, to capture human body motions may have many applications in medical care and computer animation. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of intelligent sensors to capture human motions for home rehabilitation. We design a game to help a patient to conduct...
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