Using mobile phone barometer for low-power transportation context detection

SenSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 191-205

  Sankaran, Kartik ^a   Zhu, Minhui ^a   Guo, Xiang Fa ^a   Ananda, Akkihebbal L ^a   Chan, Mun Choon ^a   Peh, Li Shiuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barometer; Context detection; Mobile sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; BAROMETERS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SMARTPHONES; SURVEYS;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; COMPLEX PROCESSING; CONTEXT DETECTION; HIGH SAMPLING RATES; MOBILE SENSING; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS; POSITION DEPENDENTS; SERVER-BASED APPLICATIONS;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84914142507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2668332.2668343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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