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Published by cornelius on Monday, April 27th, 2009 in mobile, Technology.Tags: mobile sensing, sensor applications, social sensing, urban sensing
Unlike scientific applications, many sensors for urban applications are already ‘out there,’ watching and listening. Mobile phones provide us with sounds and imagery from our homes and neighborhoods, and the near ubiquity of wireless access in many future urban settings will allow us to publish or share data easily, immediately. Soon private citizens will have access to a great diversity of sensors, allowing them to make even more detailed observations of their communities. They will be able to cross-reference spatially and temporally tagged data they gather with publicly available data from private and municipal monitoring of the city—traffic, weather, air quality, pedestrian flow—the environment and rhythms of urban life.
At the edges of culture, lightweight web applications, built on this publicly available information and free web services, emerge already almost daily to explore new linkages among these varied data.
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We suggest that urban and social sensing applications will flourish only given a flexible sensor information fabric that allows a wide range of data remixing, correlation and fusion applications.
[via: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, Urban Sensing Project]
Why do I blog this? Go to the well-done Urban Sensing website to find detailed descriptions about a variety of mobile sensing application scenarios. Why not start with the PEIR Personal Environmental Impact Report?
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