Crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration using twitter

Despite the availability of the sensor and smart-phone devices to fulfill the ubiquitous computing vision, the-state-of-the-art falls short of this vision. We argue that the reason for this gap is the lack of an infrastructure to task/utilize these devices for collaboration. We propose that microblo...

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Main Authors: Demirbas, Murat, Bayir, Murat Ali, Akcora, Cuneyt Gurcan, Yilmaz, Yavuz Selim, Ferhatosmanoglu, Hakan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities and towns
Collaboration
Meteorology
Sensors
Smart phones
Twitter
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Despite the availability of the sensor and smart-phone devices to fulfill the ubiquitous computing vision, the-state-of-the-art falls short of this vision. We argue that the reason for this gap is the lack of an infrastructure to task/utilize these devices for collaboration. We propose that microblogging services like Twitter can provide an "open" publish-subscribe infrastructure for sensors and smartphones, and pave the way for ubiquitous crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration applications. We design and implement a crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration system over Twitter, and showcase our system in the context of two applications: a crowd-sourced weather radar, and a participatory noise-mapping application. Our results from real-world Twitter experiments give insights into the feasibility of this approach and outline the research challenges in sensor/smartphone integration to Twitter.
DOI:10.1109/WOWMOM.2010.5534910