2. The Future Cities Crowdsensor
João Rodrigues, Vítor Ribeiro, Ana Aguiar, João Barros
FEUP

3. What is a crowdsensor?
• Leveraging the power of the crowd
• Use people as moving sensors to gather data
• Smartphones are a ubiquitous platform with
many connectivity possibilities
– 22% of the world population by the end of 2013
•
Business Insider Intelligence, Dec 2013
– 39.6% of mobile phone users in Portugal
•
Marktest, Aug 2013
– 50% of the 15-24 age group
•
Marktest, Aug 2013
– These figures are growing

4. CrowdSensor
• Modular and stable mobile sensing platform
– Application for Android OS
– Cloud storage
– Visualisation platform

5. SenseMyCity App
• Internal Sensors
– Location: GPS, Network
– Motion: accelerometer,
gyroscope, magnetometer
– Connectivity: WiFi, cellular
– Environmental: temperature,
pressure, humidity
• External Sensors
– On-Board Diagnostics (OBD)
– Vital Jacket (ECG)
– Zephyr (heart rate)

6. Back and Frontoffice
• Storage and
visualisation
backoffices
• Data collection and
storage following
data protection
guidelines
– Informed consent
– Privacy
– Data ownership

7. Where is more data collected

8. Where do participants spend
more time

9. What to do with the data?
• Available algorithms
– Calculate mobility pattern and route similarity
• E.g. suggest car pooling, or public transportation
– Estimate fuel consumption
– Draw WiFi coverage maps
• E.g. use for managing WiFi roaming
• Currently working on more

11. • Please join as participant and contact us for
designing new experiences
• On-going data collection contest