Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

1-2018

Abstract

We espouse the vision of a smart object/campus architecture where sensors attached to smart objects use BLE as communication interface, and where smartphones act as opportunistic relays to transfer the data. We explore the feasibility of the vision with real-world Wi-Fi based location traces from our university campus. Our feasibility studies establish that redundancy exists in user movement within the indoor spaces, and that this redundancy can be exploited for collecting sensor data in an opportunistic, yet fair manner. We develop a couple of alternative heuristics that address the BLE energy asymmetry challenge by intelligently duty-cycling the scanning actions of individual devices. We evaluate the efficacy and tradeoffs of the proposed approaches by simulation experiments with real-world location traces.

Keywords

Communication interface, Feasibility studies, Individual devices, Opportunistic relays, Smart monitoring, Smart objects, University campus, User movement

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2018 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS): Bengaluru, India, January 3-7: Proceedings

First Page

312

Last Page

319

ISBN

9781538611821

Identifier

10.1109/COMSNETS.2018.8328213

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2018.8328213

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