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G-Sense: A Scalable Architecture For Global Sensing And Monitoring, Alfredo J. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, Sean J. Barbeau
G-Sense: A Scalable Architecture For Global Sensing And Monitoring, Alfredo J. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, Sean J. Barbeau
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The pervasiveness of cellular phones combined with Internet connectivity, GPS embedded chips, location information, and integrated sensors provide an excellent platform to collect data about the individual and its surrounding environment. As a result, new applications have recently appeared to address large-scale societal problems as well as improve the quality of life of the individual. However, these new applications, recently called location-based services, participatory sensing, and human-centric sensing, bring many new challenges, one of them being the management of the huge amount of traffic (data) they generate. This article presents G-Sense, for Global-Sense, an architecture that integrates mobile and static …