The Rise of People-Centric Sensing

Andrew T. Campbell, Shane B. Eisenman, Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Ronald A. Peterson, Hong Lu, Xiao Zheng, Mirco Musolesi, Kristóf Fodor, Gahng-Seop Ahn
2008 IEEE Internet Computing  
People-centric sensing is poised to radically change the way we see the world. Technological advances in sensing, computation, storage, and communications will turn the near ubiquitous mobile phone into a global mobile sensing device that enables myriad new personal, social, and public sensing applications. People-centric sensing will help drive this trend by enabling a different way to sense, learn, visualize and share information about ourselves, friends, communities, the way we live and the
more » ... orld we live in. Peoplecentric sensing juxtaposes the traditional view of mesh sensor networks where people are passive data consumers that simply interact at the network periphery with physically embedded static sensor webs, with one where people carry mobile sensing elements (i.e., sensor-enabled mobile phones), enabling opportunistic sensing coverage, and thus represent a key architectural component of the system. In this article, we discuss our vision for people-centric sensing, the challenges it brings, and the ongoing development of a number of social sensing applications as part of the MetroSense Project.
doi:10.1109/mic.2008.90 fatcat:jn2rvgyktjb5jpijzxqp2qmkcq