Abstract
A design for a novel mobile sensing system, called Temperature Measurement System Architecture (TMSA), that uses people as mobile sensing nodes in a network to capture spatiotemporal properties of pedestrians in urban environments is presented in this paper. In this dynamic, microservices approach, real-time data and an open-source IoT platform are combined to provide weather conditions based on information generated by a fleet of mobile sensing platforms. TMSA also offers several advantages over traditional methods using participatory sensing or more recently crowd-sourced data from mobile devices, as it provides a framework in which citizens can bring to light data relevant to urban planning services or learn human behaviour patterns, aiming to change users’ attitudes or behaviors through social influence. In this paper, we motivate the need for and demonstrate the potential of such a sensing paradigm, which supports a host of new research and application developments, and illustrate this with a practical urban sensing example.
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This work has been supported by FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia within the R&D Units Project Scope: UIDB/00319/2020.
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Rosa, L., Silva, F., Analide, C. (2020). TMSA: Participatory Sensing Based on Mobile Phones in Urban Spaces. In: Analide, C., Novais, P., Camacho, D., Yin, H. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2020. IDEAL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62362-3_23
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