PeopleNet - A Mobile Sensing Testbed, The Ohio State University, June 2008

PeopleNet is a mobile sensing testbed at Ohio State, comprising cellphones integrated with 802.15.4 radio based Intel psi-motes, that also contain accelerometers and motion sensors. Applications can be written in PeopleNet for social networking such as buddy messaging, for querying objects of interest such as status of elevators in the building and for surveillance applications such as tracking. I have been involved in the following aspects in this project: localization of mobile units using low power radios, application for monitoring conference rooms, developing interfaces on the cell phones for using different applications and deployment of a static sensor network that is used to aid programming of cell phones and health monitoring.

Mobile sensing unit in PeopleNet

Publications

1. V. Kulathumani, M. Sridharan, A. Arora, R. Ramnath, Weave: An architecture for tailoring applications across sensor fabrics, MODUS workshop 2008