Yu Wang, R. Tan, G. Xing, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan, Xiaoming Liu
{"title":"Samba","authors":"Yu Wang, R. Tan, G. Xing, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan, Xiaoming Liu","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737100","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring aquatic environment is of great interest to the ecosystem, marine life, and human health. This paper presents the design and implementation of Samba -- an aquatic surveillance robot that integrates an off-the-shelf Android smartphone and a robotic fish to monitor harmful aquatic processes such as oil spill and harmful algal blooms. Using the built-in camera of on-board smartphone, Samba can detect spatially dispersed aquatic processes in dynamic and complex environments. To reduce the excessive false alarms caused by the non-water area (e.g., trees on the shore), Samba segments the captured images and performs target detection in the identified water area only. However, a major challenge in the design of Samba is the high energy consumption resulted from the continuous image segmentation. We propose a novel approach that leverages the power-efficient inertial sensors on smartphone to assist the image processing. In particular, based on the learned mapping models between inertial and visual features, Samba uses real-time inertial sensor readings to estimate the visual features that guide the image segmentation, significantly reducing energy consumption and computation overhead. Samba also features a set of lightweight and robust computer vision algorithms, which detect harmful aquatic processes based on their distinctive color features. Lastly, Samba employs a feedback-based rotation control algorithm to adapt to spatiotemporal evolution of the target aquatic process. We have implemented a Samba prototype and evaluated it through extensive field experiments, lab experiments, and trace-driven simulations. The results show that Samba can achieve 94% detection rate, 5% false alarm rate, and a lifetime up to nearly two months.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115256294","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}
Yong Sun, Md Anindya Prodhan, Erin Griffiths, K. Whitehouse
{"title":"How hot is piping hot?: lower energy consumption with smarter hot water delivery","authors":"Yong Sun, Md Anindya Prodhan, Erin Griffiths, K. Whitehouse","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737112","url":null,"abstract":"In typical US homes, water heating is the largest energy consumer besides space heating and cooling, and it accounts for approximately 17% of residential energy consumption on average. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a new technique to reduce energy waste due to pipe loss: delivering lower temperature water whenever possible. We created a Smarter Water Heater (SWH) that uses data fusion techniques to infer 1) the fixture being used 2) the mixed water temperature at the fixture 3) the pipe volume for that fixture. After learning a model for each fixture, it solves a control optimization problem to decide when and at what temperature to deliver water to minimize energy use without sacrificing comfort of the user. We evaluated the SWH in three stages. First, we built a physical prototype and measured energy efficiency. We then deployed 18 sensors into a home's piping system for a 50-day in-situ study to stress test the SWH's sensing sub-system. Finally, we collected traces of hot water use from 5 different homes over 10 days each to determine how different water usage habits and piping structures affect energy savings. The results indicate that the SWH reduces total water heating energy by 8--14% with little to no effect on user comfort.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134341593","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":"Structural sensing system with networked dynamic sensing configuration","authors":"Shijia Pan, Mostafa Mirshekari, H. Noh, Pei Zhang","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737147","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamic responses of the structure provide a variety of information about the structure as well as people inside. Compared with traditional sensing methods, structural sensing method serves more general sensing purposes due to the diversity of information it can infer from structural responses. For example, by sensing the structural vibration, a system can track and identify a person through vibration caused by their gaits [5, 6]. Such non-intrusive identification and tracking system enables various smart building applications, such as patient monitoring system at advanced hospitals and nursing homes.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115926049","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":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","authors":"Suman Nath, B. Krishnamachari, Anthony G. Rowe","doi":"10.1145/2737095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2015) in Seattle, USA. IPSN is one of the flagship research conferences of the networked sensing and control community, and continues to serve as a major forum for cuttingedge research results.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122499612","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":"Wake-up flooding: an asynchronous network flooding primitive","authors":"Felix Sutton, L. Thiele","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737159","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new technique for overcoming the fundamental trade-off between energy-efficiency and end-to-end packet latency pervading all event-triggered wireless sensing applications. Instead of applying popular synchronous or pseudo-asynchronous protocols, we leverage state-of-the-art wake-up receivers to facilitate purely asynchronous rendezvous. We then extend the per-hop asynchrony into a multi-hop flooding primitive, termed Wake-up Flooding. We describe the underpinnings of the flooding primitive and present preliminary results of wake-up flooding implemented on a custom dual-radio wireless sensing platform deployed in an indoor testbed.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129762110","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":"SiCILIA: a smart sensor system for clothing insulation inference using heat exchange","authors":"A. Shaabana, Rong Zheng, Zhipeng Xu","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2742934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2742934","url":null,"abstract":"We present SiCILIA, a hardware platform that extracts physical and personal variables of an individual's thermal environment to infer the amount of clothing insulation and thermal sensation without human intervention. The proposed inference algorithms build upon theories of body heat transfer, and are corroborated by empirical data. Experimental results show the algorithm is capable of accurately predicting an occupant's thermal insulation with a confidence interval of approximately ±0.3 and a mean prediction error of 0.2.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129452066","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}
A. Aulery, C. Roland, J. Diguet, Zhongwei Zheng, O. Sentieys, P. Scalart
{"title":"Radio signature based posture recognition using WBSN","authors":"A. Aulery, C. Roland, J. Diguet, Zhongwei Zheng, O. Sentieys, P. Scalart","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737141","url":null,"abstract":"A body network of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) is a well known solution for posture recognition based on accelerometer and magnetometer data fusion. However sensors and especially the magnetometer can be disturbed by the environment. Considering a Wireless Body Sensor Network (WBSN), we propose to use available radio received power measurements as an alternative to the magnetometer. We show with simulation and real data, that the radio signal used for WBSN communications can also provide useful location information despite highly noisy Received Signal Strength Indications (RSSI). We propose a solution for the static case that leads to a very simple yet Efficient algorithm.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116410460","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}
Felix Sutton, Reto Da Forno, Marco Zimmerling, R. Lim, Tonio Gsell, F. Ferrari, J. Beutel, L. Thiele
{"title":"Predictable wireless embedded platforms","authors":"Felix Sutton, Reto Da Forno, Marco Zimmerling, R. Lim, Tonio Gsell, F. Ferrari, J. Beutel, L. Thiele","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737156","url":null,"abstract":"Resource interference is a fundamental barrier to realizing predictable wireless embedded systems. We address this problem by (i) partitioning application and communication tasks onto dedicated platforms, and (ii) designing a platform interconnect to facilitate asynchronous message exchange with predictable run-time behavior. We motivate the need for this platform interconnect, termed Bolt, and describe a prototype implementation. Evaluation results indicate that the developed platform interconnect exhibits tightly bounded run-time execution with low jitter, and a negligible resource overhead with respect to state-of-the-art application and communication platforms.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116532072","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}
B. Rumberg, D. Graham, Spencer Clites, Brandon M. Kelly, M. M. Navidi, Alexander T. Dilello, V. Kulathumani
{"title":"RAMP: accelerating wireless sensor hardware design with a reconfigurable analog/mixed-signal platform","authors":"B. Rumberg, D. Graham, Spencer Clites, Brandon M. Kelly, M. M. Navidi, Alexander T. Dilello, V. Kulathumani","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737107","url":null,"abstract":"The requirements of many wireless sensing applications approach, or even exceed, the limited hardware capabilities of energy-constrained sensing platforms. To achieve such demanding requirements, some sensing platforms have included low-power application-specific hardware---at the expense of generality---to pre-process the sensor data for reduction to only the relevant information. While this additional hardware can save power by reducing the activity of the microcontroller and radio, a unique hardware solution is required for each application, which presents an unrealistic burden in terms of design time, cost, and ease of integration. To diminish these burdens, we present a reconfigurable analog/mixed-signal sensing platform in this work. At the hardware-level, this platform consists of a reconfigurable integrated circuit containing many commonly used signal-processing blocks and circuit components that can be connected in any configuration. At the software level, this platform provides a framework for abstracting this underlying hardware. We demonstrate how to quickly develop new applications on this platform, ranging from standard sensor interfacing techniques to more complicated intelligent pre-processing and wake-up detection. We also demonstrate how to integrate this platform with commonly used wireless sensor nodes and embedded-system platforms.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133625418","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}
C. Liang, Börje F. Karlsson, N. Lane, Feng Zhao, Junbei Zhang, Zheyi Pan, Zhao Li, Yong Yu
{"title":"SIFT: building an internet of safe things","authors":"C. Liang, Börje F. Karlsson, N. Lane, Feng Zhao, Junbei Zhang, Zheyi Pan, Zhao Li, Yong Yu","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737115","url":null,"abstract":"As the number of connected devices explodes, the use scenarios of these devices and data have multiplied. Many of these scenarios, e.g., home automation, require tools beyond data visualizations, to express user intents and to ensure interactions do not cause undesired effects in the physical world. We present SIFT, a safety-centric programming platform for connected devices in IoT environments. First, to simplify programming, users express high-level intents in declarative IoT apps. The system then decides which sensor data and operations should be combined to satisfy the user requirements. Second, to ensure safety and compliance, the system verifies whether conflicts or policy violations can occur within or between apps. Through an office deployment, user studies, and trace analysis using a large-scale dataset from a commercial IoT app authoring platform, we demonstrate the power of SIFT and highlight how it leads to more robust and reliable IoT apps.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122214459","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}