NITOS BikesNet: Enabling Mobile Sensing Experiments through the OMF Framework in a city-wide environment

Authors:  Giannis Kazdaridis, Donatos Stavropoulos, Vasilis Maglogiannis, Thanasis Korakis, Spyros Lalis and Leandros Tassiulas

Conference:  IEEE MDM 2014, Brisbane, Australia, July 15-18 2014

Abstract: In this paper we present the NITOS BikesNet platform, a city-scale mobile sensing infrastructure that relies on bicycles of volunteer users. NITOS BikesNet employs a custom-built embedded node that can be equipped with different types of sensors, and which can be easily mounted on a bicycle in order to opportunistically collect environmental and WiFi measurements in different parts of the city. Experimenters can remotely reserve and control the sensor nodes on bicycles as well as collect/visualize their measurements via the OMF/OML framework, which was extended in order to handle the intermittent connectivity and disconnected operation of the mobile nodes. We also provide a performance analysis of our node prototype in terms of sensing latency, end-to-end data transmission capability and power consumption, and report on a first experiment that was performed using NITOS BikesNet in the city of Volos, Greece.

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