{"title":"Poster abstract: Detecting faulty street lamps with illumination maps","authors":"Huang-Bin Huang, Huang-Chen Lee","doi":"10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920966","url":null,"abstract":"Badly lit roads usually lead to vehicle accidents and encourage crime in the area. Therefore, it is important to detect faulty street lamps rapidly and report them to related authorities to keep roads safe. Currently, communities still mostly depend on electrical inspectors to check street lamps regularly, which may result in long time delays for repair. Recent studies focus on add networking capability into street lamp poles to enable real-time reports on the healthy status of lamps. However, such a smart system increases costs to add sensors and network modules in every street lamp; therefore, it is nearly impossible to realize this kind of system in a short term. We propose a new method to detect faulty lamps. We designed equipment that could be installed on fixed bus routes and collect the lighting intensity along the routes. We created illumination maps in meter-level resolution. The differences between illumination maps created at different times can help identify the changes of lighting intensity in specific locations. We executed a proof-of-concept experiment that shows our method is feasible. This method can be extended to a citywide scale at low cost. As a result, this would detect faulty street lamps along main roads and prevent accidents and crime by shortening the duration of badly lit streets.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114562480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poster abstract: Distributed sparse approximation for frog sound classification","authors":"Bo Wei, Mingrui Yang, R. Rana, C. Chou, W. Hu","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185699","url":null,"abstract":"Sparse approximation has now become a buzzword for classification in numerous research domains. We propose a distributed sparse approximation method based on ℓ1 minimization for frog sound classification, which is tailored to the resource constrained wireless sensor networks. Our pilot study demonstrates that ℓ1 minimization can run on wireless sensor nodes producing satisfactory classification accuracy.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125051767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yongpan Liu, Yiqun Wang, Hongyang Jia, Shan Su, Jinghuan Wen, Wenzhu Zhang, Lin Zhang, Huazhong Yang
{"title":"Demo abstract: An energy harvesting nonvolatile sensor node and its application to distributed moving object detection","authors":"Yongpan Liu, Yiqun Wang, Hongyang Jia, Shan Su, Jinghuan Wen, Wenzhu Zhang, Lin Zhang, Huazhong Yang","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185722","url":null,"abstract":"Energy harvesting sensor nodes based on real nonvolatile processors are demonstrated to show the desirable characteristics of those systems, such as no battery, zero standby power, microsecond-scale sleep and wake-up time, high resilience to random power failures and fine-grained power management. Furthermore, we show its applications to a distributed moving object detection system, one of novel nonvolatile computing systems.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134481950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simbeeotic: A simulator and testbed for micro-aerial vehicle swarm experiments","authors":"Bryan Kate, J. Waterman, Karthik Dantu, M. Welsh","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185685","url":null,"abstract":"Micro-aerial vehicle (MAV) swarms are an emerging class of mobile sensing systems. Simulation and staged deployment to prototype testbeds are useful in the early stages of large-scale system design, when hardware is unavailable or deployment at scale is impractical. To faithfully represent the problem domain, a MAV swarm simulator must be able to model the key aspects of the sys-tem: actuation, sensing, and communication. We present Simbee-otic, a simulation framework geared toward modeling swarms of MAVs. Simbeeotic enables algorithm development and rapid MAV prototyping through pure simulation and hardware-in-the-loop ex-perimentation. We demonstrate that Simbeeotic provides the appropriate level of fidelity to evaluate prototype systems while maintaining the ability to test at scale.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132570102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chenren Xu, Bernhard Firner, Yanyong Zhang, R. Howard, Jun Li, Xiaodong Lin
{"title":"Improving RF-based device-free passive localization in cluttered indoor environments through probabilistic classification methods","authors":"Chenren Xu, Bernhard Firner, Yanyong Zhang, R. Howard, Jun Li, Xiaodong Lin","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185734","url":null,"abstract":"Radio frequency based device-free passive localization has been proposed as an alternative to indoor localization because it does not require subjects to wear a radio device. This technique observes how people disturb the pattern of radio waves in an indoor space and derives their positions accordingly. The well-known multipath effect makes this problem very challenging, because in a complex environment it is impractical to have enough knowledge to be able to accurately model the effects of a subject on the surrounding radio links. In addition, even minor changes in the environment over time change radio propagation sufficiently to invalidate the datasets needed by simple fingerprint-based methods. In this paper, we develop a fingerprinting-based method using probabilistic classification approaches based on discriminant analysis. We also devise ways to mitigate the error caused by multipath effect in data collection, further boosting the classification likelihood. We validate our method in a one-bedroom apartment that has 8 transmitters, 8 receivers, and a total of 32 cells that can be occupied. We show that our method can correctly estimate the occupied cell with a likelihood of 97.2%. Further, we show that the accuracy remains high, even when we significantly reduce the training overhead, consider fewer radio devices, or conduct a test one month later after the training. We also show that our method can be used to track a person in motion and to localize multiple people with high accuracies. Finally, we deploy our method in a completely different commercial environment with two times the area achieving a cell estimation accuracy of 93.8% as an evidence of applicability to multiple environments.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121710920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William P. Bennett, M. Fitzpatrick, David J. Anthony, M. Vuran, Anne Lacy
{"title":"Poster abstract: Crane charades: Behavior identification via backpack mounted sensor platforms","authors":"William P. Bennett, M. Fitzpatrick, David J. Anthony, M. Vuran, Anne Lacy","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185706","url":null,"abstract":"The Whooping Crane is an endangered species native to North America and there are approximately 575 in existence. There have been recent efforts to provide ecologists with a tool to study the multifaceted behavior of the endangered species. Like many species, cranes display distinctly identifiable movements while being threatened, acting territorial, migrating, or preening. The preliminary experiments described in this poster provide evidence that sensor data presented by a novel sensing platform, the CraneTracker, can be used to identify crane behaviors on-board. With the ability to identify these behaviors, ecologists will have a more granular insight on what occurs during a crane's life on a daily basis.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129545943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lohit Yerva, Bradford Campbell, Apoorva Bansal, T. Schmid, P. Dutta
{"title":"Grafting energy-harvesting leaves onto the sensornet tree","authors":"Lohit Yerva, Bradford Campbell, Apoorva Bansal, T. Schmid, P. Dutta","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185733","url":null,"abstract":"We study the problem of augmenting battery-powered sensornet trees with energy-harvesting leaf nodes. Our results show that leaf nodes that are smaller in size than today's typical battery-powered sensors can harvest enough energy from ambient sources to acquire and transmit sensor readings every minute, even under poor lighting conditions. However, achieving this functionality, especially as leaf nodes scale in size, requires new platforms, protocols, and programming. Platforms must be designed around low-leakage operation, offer a richer power supply control interface for system software, and employ an unconventional energy storage hierarchy. Protocols must not only be low-power, but they must also become low-energy, which affects initial and ongoing synchronization, and periodic communications. Systems programming, and especially bootup and communications, must become low-latency, by eliminating conservative timeouts and startup dependencies, and embracing high-concurrency. Applying these principles, we show that robust, indoor, perpetual sensing is viable using off-the-shelf technology.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124326458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongzhao Huang, S. Anzaroot, Heng Ji, H. Le, Dong Wang, T. Abdelzaher
{"title":"Demo abstract: Free-form text summarization in social sensing","authors":"Hongzhao Huang, S. Anzaroot, Heng Ji, H. Le, Dong Wang, T. Abdelzaher","doi":"10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920936","url":null,"abstract":"This demonstration illustrates an information aggregation and summarization service for social sensing applications. Social sensing, using mobile phones and other networked devices in the possession of individuals, has gained significant popularity in recent years. In some cases, the information collected is structured, such as numeric data from temperature sensors, accelerometers, or GPS devices. Aggregate statistical properties, such as expected values, standard de-viations, and outliers, can be easily computed, and can be used to summarize the data set. In other cases, however, the collection includes unstructured data types such as text or images with textual annotations. The concepts of expected values and outliers are harder to define, yet it is still important to be able to aggregate and summarize the data. We demonstrate a system which can automatically summarize real-time textual data common to social sensing applications. Specifically, we focus on text messages that describe events in the environment. The output of our service provides a reliable summary of observations that can be used in many contexts from military intelligence to participatory sensing campaigns.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122933831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saket K. Sathe, Sebastian Cartier, D. Chakraborty, K. Aberer
{"title":"Poster abstract: Effectively modeling data from large-area community sensor networks","authors":"Saket K. Sathe, Sebastian Cartier, D. Chakraborty, K. Aberer","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185694","url":null,"abstract":"Effectively managing the data generated by Large-area Community driven Sensor Networks (LCSNs) is a new and challenging problem. One important step for managing and querying such sensor network data is to create abstractions of the data in the form of models. These models can then be stored, retrieved, and queried, as required. In our OpenSense1 project, we advocate an adaptive model-cover driven strategy towards effectively managing such data. Our strategy is designed considering the fundamental principles of LCSNs. We describe an adaptive approach, called adaptive k-means, and report preliminary results on how it compares with the traditional grid-based approach towards modeling LCSN data. We find that our approach performs better to model the sensed phenomenon in spatial and temporal dimensions. Our results are based on two real datasets.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117072161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Baidoo-Williams, J. Bril, Mehmed B. Diken, J. Durst, J. McClurg, S. Dasgupta, C. Just, A. Kruger, R. Mudumbai, T. Newton
{"title":"Poster abstract: Cybermussels: A biological sensor network using freshwater mussels","authors":"H. Baidoo-Williams, J. Bril, Mehmed B. Diken, J. Durst, J. McClurg, S. Dasgupta, C. Just, A. Kruger, R. Mudumbai, T. Newton","doi":"10.1145/2185677.2185703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2185677.2185703","url":null,"abstract":"We describe our ongoing work on designing an underwater sensor network for monitoring the ecosystem of the Mississippi river using freshwater mussels as biological sensors. One of the most extensive manifestations of anthropogenic mismanagement of nitrogen is eutrophication of the Gulf of Mexico. Our vision is to create a biosensor network of native freshwater mussels in the Mississippi river to monitor and model key components of the nitrogen cycle.","PeriodicalId":231003,"journal":{"name":"2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128835814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}