Studies on Gathering Methods of Sensing Information by Mobile Terminals

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25330104
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Information network
• Research Institution: Nara Institute of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: ITO Minoru 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (90127184)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SHIBATA NAOKI 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報科学研究科, 准教授 (40335477)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: センサネットワーク / スマートフォン / DTN

Outline of Final Research Achievements

If environmental information can be obtained by sensors in mobile terminals such as smartphones, then preparing specific infrastructure for gathering sensing information would be unneeded. But since people with smartphones should move autonomously, necessary information cannot always be obtained. Wireless communication is used for gathering information. Then selecting appropriate mobile terminals is quite difficult, since we should take into account constraints such as communication area, available band width, sensing area, and available battery power of terminal.
In this research, given a query for sensing information, we have developed an efficienct method for gathering necessary information, under satisfying specified constraints. We have evaluated usefulness of the method through computer simulation.

Free Research Field

情報工学