Abstract :
A new generation of battery operated wireless sensor networks are transforming the transportation industry. With their ease of deployment, low maintenance cost, and accuracy these wireless sensing platforms are providing significant improvements in the quality and quantity of data and performance measures enabling a wide range of applications from traffic signal control, to freeway management, to traveler information systems, and parking management systems. The fast adoption rate of this disruptive technology in transportation is opening the door to exciting new research areas ranging from new sensing modalities, to improved RF range, to the challenging problem of managing the vast amounts of data generated and developing the analytical tools to turn the data into useful information. The talk will describe the current state-of-the-art for wireless sensor networking in transportation and discuss the new frontiers of research in that area.
