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An Improved Smartphone-Based Non-Participatory Crowd Monitoring System in Smart Environments

  • Tarun Kulshrestha
  • , Divya Saxena
  • , Rajdeep Niyogi
  • , Manoj Misra
  • , Dhaval Patel

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Abstract

Mobile Crowd Sensing and Computing (MCSC) is a replacement of static sensing infrastructure by user's mobile sensor-enhanced devices. MCSC collects user's local knowledge such as local information, ambient, and traffic conditions using sensor-enabled devices. The collected information is further aggregated and transferred to the cloud for detailed analysis. In this paper, we propose a Smartphone-based non-participatory crowd monitoring system, named CrowdTrack, to monitor the movement patterns of one or more persons (non-participatory) using unmodified Smartphones in a densely crowded environment. CrowdTrack uses the Smartphone as a sensing unit without any hardware modification to extract the MAC ids from the wireless probe requests emitted from the users' devices. MAC ids are stored and processed locally for short-term analysis and then the filtered data is uploaded to the server for better analysis and visualization. We have also developed a real-time testbed to identify mobility patterns in the data collected from our Institute campus and it is deployed to find the visiting sequences of students. Real-time experiments on a proof-of-concept prototype testbed with our dataset show the usability of our proposed system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages132-139
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538632215
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Aug 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event20th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and 15th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017 - Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Duration: 21 Jul 201724 Jul 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017
Volume2

Conference

Conference20th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering and 15th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, CSE and EUC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou, Guangdong
Period21/07/1724/07/17

Keywords

  • 802.11 frame
  • Human identification and location tracking
  • MCSC
  • Mobile Crowd Sensing and Computing
  • Probe request

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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