{"title":"Towards enabling concurrent transmissions in heterogeneous networks","authors":"Martina Brachmann, Dennis Becker, S. Santini","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737164","url":null,"abstract":"The use of concurrent transmissions allows protocols to achieve high reliable, ultra-low latency communication in homogeneous wireless sensor networks. However, applications for wireless sensor networks must often operate over heterogeneous nodes. In this work, we provide a first step towards enabling concurrent transmissions in heterogeneous networks. We present a methodology to implement the Glossy communication protocol on a number of different hardware platforms. We further compare the performance of Glossy on two exemplary platforms -- the Tmote Sky and the WiSMote. We show that even small differences in the underlying hardware can influence the performance of Glossy significantly.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"9 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":"132229804","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}
David Hasenfratz, Tabita Arn, Ivo de Concini, O. Saukh, L. Thiele
{"title":"Health-optimal routing in urban areas","authors":"David Hasenfratz, Tabita Arn, Ivo de Concini, O. Saukh, L. Thiele","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737135","url":null,"abstract":"The availability of novel, high-resolution pollution maps enables a wide range of new application scenarios, which were not possible before. In this paper, we combine high-resolution pollution maps available for the city of Zurich, Switzerland, with road network data to analyze how much urban dwellers can reduce their exposure to air pollution by not taking the shortest path between origin and destination but a healthier and slightly longer alternative route. We introduce a new weight function to assess the exposure on each street segment and evaluate the benefits of the healthier path. Finally, we efficiently implement the algorithm as stand-alone application for iOS and Android devices. The app helps city residents to understand and reduce their exposure to air pollutants.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"11 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":"134273101","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":"Hand hygiene duration and technique recognition using wrist-worn sensors","authors":"V. Galluzzi, Ted Herman, P. Polgreen","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737106","url":null,"abstract":"Hand washing is an effective countermeasure to the spread of many types of infection. Recently, sensing technology has automated the sampling and study of hand hygiene rates. Surprisingly, many questions about the area are unresolved, motivating further exploration based on wrist-worn commodity sensors (accelerometer and MEMS gyroscope). This paper describes initial work on techniques for measuring the duration of washing events and classifying different scrubbing motions. The work compares different sensor types and their fusion, compares sensing from one wrist to measuring both wrists, and explains results of experiments on a range of hand washing motions in a variety of subject populations, some in clinics of a teaching hospital. Machine learning is used to explore such questions: the paper investigates numerous features extracted from sensor data, looking at sampling rates, windowing, and platform details that affect classification. In training and classification experiments, data collection starts on the wrist, activated by a message from a disinfectant dispenser; data is then transferred by radio to a base station for subsequent reduction, analysis and characterization. Results show that hand hygiene motions can be classified with up to 93% accuracy.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"12 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":"125255739","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":"A participatory transport trip quality measurement system","authors":"Zhe Xiao, Lucien Loiseau, H. Lim","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2742013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2742013","url":null,"abstract":"Hand Hygiene Duration and Technique The Trip Quality Measurement System (TQMS) is a prototype mobile data participatory system for the efficient collection and management of mobility and survey data. A transport trip quality measurement application has been developed using this system. The target users of this application are the commuters and passengers who travel in buses, taxis, metro trains, etc. This application measures the quality of the users' transport trips based on various factors such as bumpiness of ride, wait/travel time, distance, etc. The system consists of a smartphone client (iOS and Android) app for collecting mobility and survey data from the users, and a data management and analytics framework to manage, process and analyze the participatory data to derive useful insights on the mobility pattern of users and the transport trip quality experienced by the users.","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":"129970539","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":"Reducing multi-hop calibration errors in large-scale mobile sensor networks","authors":"O. Saukh, David Hasenfratz, L. Thiele","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737113","url":null,"abstract":"Frequent sensor calibration is essential in sensor networks with low-cost sensors. We exploit the fact that temporally and spatially close measurements of different sensors measuring the same phenomenon are similar. Hence, when calibrating a sensor, we adjust its calibration parameters to minimize the differences between co-located measurements of previously calibrated sensors. In turn, freshly calibrated sensors can now be used to calibrate other sensors in the network, referred to as multi-hop calibration. We are the first to study multi-hop calibration with respect to a reference signal (micro-calibration) in detail. We show that ordinary least squares regression---commonly used to calibrate noisy sensors---suffers from significant error accumulation over multiple hops. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-hop calibration algorithm using geometric mean regression, which (i) highly reduces error propagation in the network, (ii) distinctly outperforms ordinary least squares in the multi-hop scenario, and (iii) requires considerably fewer ground truth measurements compared to existing network calibration algorithms. The proposed algorithm is especially valuable when calibrating large networks of heterogeneous sensors with different noise characteristics. We provide theoretical justifications for our claims. Then, we conduct a detailed analysis with artificial data to study calibration accuracy under various settings and to identify different error sources. Finally, we use our algorithm to accurately calibrate 13 million temperature, ground ozone (O3), and carbon monoxide (CO) measurements gathered by our mobile air pollution monitoring network.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":" 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113949445","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}
P. Misra, V. Rajaraman, Aishwarya S N, Bharat Dwivedi, J. Warrior
{"title":"CleanHands: an integrated monitoring system for control of hospital acquired infections","authors":"P. Misra, V. Rajaraman, Aishwarya S N, Bharat Dwivedi, J. Warrior","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2742928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2742928","url":null,"abstract":"A leading cause of mortality of hospitalized patients are hospital acquired infections (HAI). Unclean hands of healthcare personnel (HCP) are the most common factor contributing to HAI, but their strict compliance to hand hygiene protocols is difficult to supervise. In this work, we propose CleanHands: a simple, low-cost and scalable monitoring and alerting system to ensure adequate thoroughness of disinfection. CleanHands uses a combination of low-cost Bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacon tags and mobile phones for HCP tracking. It integrates infection control models and state-following algorithms for alarming in the event of noncompliance to hand hygiene. Our preliminary experiments in a mockup, small scale intensive care unit (ICU) facility shows promising results with less than 5% false positives.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"3 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":"114200227","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":"Radio-based device-free activity recognition with radio frequency interference","authors":"Bo Wei, W. Hu, Mingrui Yang, C. Chou","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737117","url":null,"abstract":"Activity recognition is an important component of many pervasive computing applications. Device-free activity recognition has the advantage that it does not have the privacy concern of using cameras and the subjects do not have to carry a device on them. Recently, it has been shown that channel state information (CSI) can be used for activity recognition in a device-free setting. With the proliferation of wireless devices, it is important to understand how radio frequency interference (RFI) can impact on pervasive computing applications. In this paper, we investigate the impact of RFI on device-free CSI-based location-oriented activity recognition. We conduct experiments in environments without and with RFI. We present data to show that RFI can have a significant impact on the CSI vectors. In the absence of RFI, different activities give rise to different CSI vectors that can be differentiated visually. However, in the presence of RFI, the CSI vectors become much noisier and activity recognition also becomes harder. Our extensive experiments shows that the performance of state-of-the-art classification methods may degrade significantly with RFI. We then propose a number of counter measures to mitigate the impact of RFI and improve the location-oriented activity recognition performance. Our evaluation shows the proposed method can improve up to 10% true detection rate in the presence of RFI. We also study the impact of bandwidth on activity recognition performance. We show that with a channel bandwidth of 20 MHz (which is used by WiFi), it is possible to achieve a good activity recognition accuracy when RFI is present.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"73 Pt B 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":"116527568","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":"Detecting malicious morphological alterations of ECG signals in body sensor networks","authors":"Hang Cai, K. Venkatasubramanian","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2742930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2742930","url":null,"abstract":"Body Sensor Network (BSN) -- a network of body-worn wireless health monitoring sensors -- have a tremendous potential to remove the space and time restrictions on health management. Given the importance of the data BSNs collect for improved health outcomes, securing the data from unauthorized tampering is essential. A compromised (or externally influenced) sensor in a BSN may generate erroneous patient data leading to, among other things, wrong diagnosis and treatment. In this paper, we present a novel approach to address the problem of detecting maliciously induced morphological alterations in the ECG signal (i.e., inducing changes to its shape). Our approach works by correlating the ECG signals with synchronously measured arterial blood pressure (ABP) signal measured using a distinct (and un-compromised) sensor. Initial analysis of our system demonstrates promising results, with 99.75% accuracy in detecting ECG signal morphological alterations for healthy patients with normal sinus rhythms.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"28 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":"114452779","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}
W. Ouyang, Lance M. Kaplan, Paul D. Martin, Alice Toniolo, M. Srivastava, T. Norman
{"title":"Debiasing crowdsourced quantitative characteristics in local businesses and services","authors":"W. Ouyang, Lance M. Kaplan, Paul D. Martin, Alice Toniolo, M. Srivastava, T. Norman","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737116","url":null,"abstract":"Information about quantitative characteristics in local businesses and services, such as the number of people waiting in line in a cafe and the number of available fitness machines in a gym, is important for informed decision, crowd management and event detection. In this paper, we investigate the potential of leveraging crowds as sensors to report such quantitative characteristics and investigate how to recover the true quantity values from noisy crowdsourced information. Through experiments, we find that crowd sensors have both bias and variance in quantity sensing, and task difficulties impact the sensing accuracy. Based on these findings, we propose an unsupervised probabilistic model to jointly assess task difficulties, ability of crowd sensors and true quantity values. Our model differs from existing categorical truth finding models as ours is specifically designed to tackle quantitative truth. In addition to devising an efficient model inference algorithm in a batch mode, we also design an even faster online version for handling streaming data. Experimental results in various scenarios demonstrate the effectiveness of our model.","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":"129373729","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}
Avik Ghose, S. Alam, Nasimuddin Ahmed, Santa Maiti, A. Choudhury, A. Pal
{"title":"Design insights for a mobile based sensor application framework: for aiding platform independent algorithm design","authors":"Avik Ghose, S. Alam, Nasimuddin Ahmed, Santa Maiti, A. Choudhury, A. Pal","doi":"10.1145/2737095.2737149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2737095.2737149","url":null,"abstract":"Modern day smart phones are powerful connected sensory and computation nodes for crowd-sensing, urban-sensing and personal-sensing applications. We have developed an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that can seamlessly handle data from the wide variety of sensors available on mobile phones. It can store and run aggregated analysis on the data in real-time. However, mobile phones themselves are a very heterogeneous set of devices. Each phone comes with a different array of sensors with varying sensitivity and control functions. Also, there are multiple development environments and programming languages. A final problem is seamless prototyping of applications offline and then seamless partitioning of the algorithm between phone and the cloud. In this paper we present early design elements of a framework aimed at addressing these issues.","PeriodicalId":318992,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks","volume":"10 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":"122104080","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}