The sensor internet at work: Locating everyday items using mobile phones

被引:30
作者
Frank, Christian [1 ]
Bolliger, Philipp [1 ]
Mattern, Friedemann [1 ]
Kellerer, Wolfgang [2 ]
机构
[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Pervas Comp, Zurich, Switzerland
[2] DoCoMo Commun Labs Europe, Munich, Germany
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
Mobile phones; Location; Wireless sensor network; Real world search; Find lost objects; Query scoping;
D O I
10.1016/j.pmcj.2007.12.002
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 [计算机科学与技术];
摘要
We present a system for monitoring and locating everyday items using mobile phones. The system is based on phones which are enhanced with the capability to detect electronically tagged objects in their vicinity. It supports various functionalities: On the one hand, phones can store the context in which users leave registered items and thus help to locate them later on. On the other hand, object owners can search for their objects using the infrastructure of mobile phones carried by other users. We describe the design of our object location system and provide an algorithm which can be used to search for lost or misplaced items efficiently by selecting the most suitable sensors based on arbitrary domain knowledge. Furthermore, we demonstrate the practicability of such wide-area searching by means of user-held sensors in a series of simulations complemented by a real-world experiment. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:421 / 447
页数:27
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