Wireless Urban Sensing Systems
Mani B. Srivastava, Mark H Hansen, Jeff Burke, Andrew Parker, Sasank Reddy, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Mark C. Allman, Vern Paxson, Deborah L. Estrin · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2006
I.A. Emerging personal, social, and urban sensing applications Application context inevitably drives the architecture design choices and the definition of services needed in a network. Over the past decade, the emergence of unanticipated applications of the Internet, such as peer-to-peer file sharing, networked gaming, podcasting, and voice telephony, has contributed to a pressing need to rethink the core Internet infrastructure and its accompanying architectural choices. To truly lay a foundation for tomorrow’s infrastructure, however, requires going beyond simply reacting to applications that have already emerged, to proactively considering the architectural implications of new classes of applications. A key area in this regard involves embedded sensing technology, presently poised to moved beyond scientific, engineering, and industrial domains into broader and more diverse citizen-initiated sensing in personal, social and urban ones. Today, applications are emerging which draw on sensed information about people, objects, and physical spaces. These applications enable new kinds of social exchange: By collecting, processing, sharing, and visualizing this information, they can offer us new and unexpected views of our communities. To achieve their potential, these applications require fundamentally new algorithms and software mechanisms, because physical inputs now become critical. The research