Participatory bluetooth scans serving as urban crowd probes

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4196-4206

  Weppner, Jens ^a   Lukowicz, Paul ^a   Blanke, Ulf ^b   Troster, Gerhard ^b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crowd Probing; Crowd Sensing; Participatory Bluetooth Scanning

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; SENSORS;

BLUETOOTH DEVICE; CROWD DENSITY; CROWD PROBING; CROWD SENSING; GROUND TRUTH; LOCATION POINTS; SCANNING DEVICE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

BLUETOOTH;

EID: 84908450872     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2360123     Document Type: Article

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