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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Abstract 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.
AbstractList 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.
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Chandy, Rishi
Krause, Andreas
Krause, Jonathan
Chandy, K Mani
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SubjectTerms Accelerometers
Communities
community sensing
distributed anomaly detection
Earthquakes
Sensor fusion
Sensor networks
Sensor phenomena and characterization
Smart phones
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