MetroNet: Case Study for Collaborative Data Sharing on the World Wide Web

Author

Dickerson, Robert F. ; Lu, Jiakang ; Li, Jingyuan ; Chantree, Billy ; Jian Lu ; Stankovic, John A. ; Whitehouse, Kamin

Author_Institution

Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville

fYear

2008

fDate

22-24 April 2008

Firstpage

557

Lastpage

558

Abstract

We demonstrate MetroNet, which is an application that illustrates collaborative data sharing on the Wide Wide Web. MetroNet has two parts. First, our sensors gather data about pedestrian foot traffic in front of and into stores, which is made available online to shopkeepers. Second, this sensor data can be made public, at the discretion of the shopkeeper, for use by city planners, other shopkeepers, or residents of the city. MetroNet is an application through which we study fundamental problems of sharing data on the Web, such as search, data fusion, and privacy.

Keywords

Internet; data privacy; groupware; road traffic; sensor fusion; town and country planning; MetroNet application; World Wide Web; city planners; collaborative data sharing; data fusion; data privacy; data search; pedestrian foot traffic; retail stores; sensor data; shopkeepers; Cities and towns; Data privacy; Displays; Foot; International collaboration; Monitoring; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Telecommunication traffic; Web sites; data fusion; data mining; data sharing; metronet; privacy; search; sensor networks; world wide sensor web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2008. IPSN '08. International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3157-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPSN.2008.68

Filename

4505515