Nericell: Rich monitoring of road and traffic conditions using mobile smartphones

SenSys'08 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 323-336

  Mohan, Prashanth ^a   Padmanabhan, Venkata N ^a   Ramjee, Ramachandran ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

mobile phones; roads; sensing; traffic

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; CONSERVE ENERGY; DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION; DEVELOPING REGIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ROAD CONDITION; ROADS; SENSING; SENSING COMPONENTS; SENSING FUNCTIONS; SERVICE PROVIDER; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC FLOW PATTERNS;

ACCELEROMETERS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; ROADS AND STREETS; SMARTPHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TELEPHONE SETS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84866503356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1460412.1460444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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