TY - JOUR
T1 - The urbanet revolution
T2 - Sensor power to the people!
AU - Riva, Oriana
AU - Borcea, Cristian
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Liviu Iftode for his contribution to the design of Spatial Programming and Migratory Services. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments. This work has been supported in part by US National Science Foundation grants CNS-0520033, CNS-0454081, and IIS-0534520, and in part by the Finland’s National Technology Agency (TEKES) Dynamos project and the Nokia Foundation.
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - Urbanet sensor networks offer to build a large-scale, people-centric sensing platforms, which is composed of heterogeneous and potentially mobile sensors. Sensor networks and mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), together with Urbanets, create rich, open sensing environments where people, municipalities, and community organizations can share their resources to give mobile users real-time access to sensed data. Much of this data will be incorporated in novel applications running on personal mobile devices. Urbanets differ from first-generation sensor networks not only in their goal to support concurrent people-centric sensing applications across cities but also in their hardware and software heterogeneity, high volatility. Urbanets are distinguished from regular sensor networks by supporting concurrent user applications. An Urbanet middleware balances resource utilization across multiple applications and limit the geographic scope of the control updates.
AB - Urbanet sensor networks offer to build a large-scale, people-centric sensing platforms, which is composed of heterogeneous and potentially mobile sensors. Sensor networks and mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), together with Urbanets, create rich, open sensing environments where people, municipalities, and community organizations can share their resources to give mobile users real-time access to sensed data. Much of this data will be incorporated in novel applications running on personal mobile devices. Urbanets differ from first-generation sensor networks not only in their goal to support concurrent people-centric sensing applications across cities but also in their hardware and software heterogeneity, high volatility. Urbanets are distinguished from regular sensor networks by supporting concurrent user applications. An Urbanet middleware balances resource utilization across multiple applications and limit the geographic scope of the control updates.
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U2 - 10.1109/MPRV.2007.46
DO - 10.1109/MPRV.2007.46
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34247379881
SN - 1536-1268
VL - 6
SP - 41
EP - 49
JO - IEEE Pervasive Computing
JF - IEEE Pervasive Computing
IS - 2
ER -