The next big one: Detecting earthquakes and other rare events from community-based sensors

Can cell phones be used to detect earthquakes? The Community Seismic Network (CSN) is building a dense sensor network from inexpensive and community owned sensors, such as cell phones and USB accelerometers. Detecting rare events such as earthquakes is a difficult sensing problem, and is compounded...

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Published in:2011 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks pp. 13 - 24
Main Authors: Faulkner, Matthew, Olson, Michael, Chandy, Rishi, Krause, Jonathan, Chandy, K Mani, Krause, Andreas
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.04.2011
Subjects:
Accelerometers
Communities
community sensing
distributed anomaly detection
Earthquakes
Sensor fusion
Sensor networks
Sensor phenomena and characterization
Smart phones
ISBN:9781612848549, 1612848540
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Summary:Can cell phones be used to detect earthquakes? The Community Seismic Network (CSN) is building a dense sensor network from inexpensive and community owned sensors, such as cell phones and USB accelerometers. Detecting rare events such as earthquakes is a difficult sensing problem, and is compounded by the wide variations among sensors in a heterogeneous community network. We demonstrate an end-to-end system using Android cell phones and a cloud fusion center that allows participants to create "mock earthquakes". Upon detecting such an event, the cloud fusion center issues real-time alerts to the phones. A map-based interface to the fusion center is projected nearby, displaying the information reported by the phones.
ISBN:9781612848549
1612848540