The National Science Foundation has awarded
a $100,000 grant to the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to “accurately capture crowd behavior” through the
use of cell phone applications used by “watchers” in the crowd.
“Proliferation of mobile smartphones has
opened up possibilities of leveraging the people and devices in a crowd, (i.e.,
crowd-sourcing) to gather data from and monitor large crowds,” the grant
abstract stated. “However, current solutions either put unpredictable stress on
the wireless or cellular infrastructure to a cloud and on energy-constrained
smartphones or do not accurately capture crowd behavior.” The grant, which is funded from Oct. 1,
2013 to Sept. 30, 2014, pays for the university’s “CrowdWatch” project, which
is a collaboration between the school and Dartmouth College.
“In response, our CrowdWatch project will
investigate monitoring crowds from the ‘inside-out’ via a scalable, distributed
and energy-efficient in-network crowd-sourcing framework,” the abstract stated.
“Local energy-efficient coordination and processing will enable the off-loading
of some of the processing to the devices by establishing a hierarchy of
participants -- multi-radio devices (i.e., Wi-Fi and Bluetooth). - See more at:
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