Toronto Networking
Seminar
People-Centric Sensing
Andrew Campbell
Department
of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
Date:
Friday, December 7, 11:10am
Location: BA 1230 (Bahen Center)
Abstract:
When we think of existing wireless sensor networks, people are out-of-
the-loop they simply interact at the periphery of the network with
physically embedded static sensor webs to realize small scale
application-specific sensing applications (e.g., environmental sensing,
industrial sensing, etc.) of interest to scientists and engineers.
Looking forward we envision Internet scale sensing where a large amount
of the traffic on the network is sensor data and a large amount of
applications used every day by people integrate sensing, fusion, and
actuation in some form or another. Sensing will be transformed from
mostly static and physically embedded to mostly mobile and
people-centric - putting people back in the loop. The MetroSense
project at Dartmouth College is developing a new wireless sensor edge
network for Internet based on the concept of people-centric sensing at
scale. We are studying three aspects of the problem: (i) the
large-scale deployment of mobile people-centric sensors (both motes and
sensor-enabled cell phones) and their interaction with embedded static
sensor webs; (ii) the concept of opportunistic tasking, sensing, and
collection; and (iii) security, trust, and privacy - because
people-centric sensing raises a number of important privacy issues. In
this talk, I will discuss our progress in designing and implementing
MetroSense and a number applications drivers (i.e., BikeNet - for
cyclist experience mapping, CenceMe - for Injecting sensing presence
into social networking applications, and PASS - considering
people-as-sensors).
Bio:
Andrew joined Dartmouth College in 2005 as an Associate Professor in
Computer Science where he leads the SensorLab and is a member
of the Center for Mobile Computing (CMC) and the Institute for Security
Technology Studies (ISTS). Prior to joining Dartmouth Andrew was an
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University
(1996-2005) and a member of the COMET Group. His current research
interests include people-centric sensing, intrusion detection systems
for WiFi networks, and open spectrum wireless networks.
Andrew received his PhD in Computer Science (1996) from Lancaster
University, England, and the NSF Career Award (1999) for his research
in programmable wireless networking. Prior to joining academia he spent
10 years working in industry both in Europe and the USA in product
research and development of computer networks and wireless packet
networks. He spent his sabbatical year (2003-2004) at the Computer Lab,
Cambridge University, as an EPSRC Visiting Fellow. In 2005 Andrew and
his family relocated from Manhattan to Norwich, Vermont. |