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PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Demo abstract: A microphone sensor based system for green building applications
Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Sheung Lu, Nirmalya Roy...
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Sensor use and usefulness: Trade-offs for data-driven authentication on mobile devices
Abstract—Modern mobile devices come with an array of sensors that support many interesting applications. However, sensors have different sampling costs (e.g., battery drain) and ...
Nicholas Micallef, Hilmi Günes Kayacik, Mike ...
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Social Hue: A subtle awareness system for connecting the elderly and their caregivers
—In this position paper, we propose an unobtrusive solution for improving bonding relations between the elderly and their caregivers, through the Social Hue. The Social Hue is a ...
Kadian Davis, Jun Hu, Loe M. G. Feijs, Evans Owusu
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
When to type, talk, or Swype: Characterizing energy consumption of mobile input modalities
—Mobile device users use applications that require text input. Today there are three primary text input modalities, soft keyboard (SK), speech to text (STT) and Swype. Each of th...
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Sound collection and visualization system enabled participatory and opportunistic sensing approaches
—This paper presents a sound collection system to visualize environmental sounds that are collected using a crowdsourcing approach. An analysis of physical features is generally ...
Sunao Hara, Masanobu Abe, Noboru Sonehara
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
l1-Norm minimization based algorithm for non-intrusive load monitoring
—Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) plays an important role in energy management and energy reduction in buildings and homes. An NILM system does not need a large amount of dep...
Xuan-Chien Le, Baptiste Vrigneau, Olivier Sentieys
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Targeted vaccination based on a wireless sensor system
—Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to protect people from being infected by infectious disease. However, it is often impractical to vaccinate all people in a communit...
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Demo abstract: A proximity-based aerial survivor locator based on connectionless broadcast
tract: A Proximity-Based Aerial Survivor Locator based on Connectionless Broadcast Arata Miyamoto1,2, Daniel J. Dubois3, Yosuke Bando2,1, Konosuke Watanabe2,1, V. Michael Bove, Jr....
Arata Miyamoto, Daniel J. Dubois, Yosuke Bando, Ko...
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Fault detection for binary sensors in smart home environments
—Experiments in assisted living confirm that such systems can provide context-aware services that enable occupants to remain active and independent. They also demonstrate that a...
Juan Ye, Graeme Stevenson, Simon A. Dobson
PERCOM
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
Pervasive self-powered human activity recognition without the accelerometer
Abstract—Conventional human activity recognition (HAR) relies on accelerometers to frequently sample human motion (acceleration). Unfortunately, power consumption of acceleromete...