Abstract-Despite the availability of the sensor and smartphone devices to fulfill the ubiquitous computing vision, thestate-of-the-art falls short of this vision. We argue that the reason for this gap is the lack of an infrastructure to task/utilize these devices for collaboration. We propose that microblogging services like Twitter can provide an "open" publish-subscribe infrastructure for sensors and smartphones, and pave the way for ubiquitous crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration applications. We design and implement a crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration system over Twitter, and showcase our system in the context of two applications: a crowd-sourced weather radar, and a participatory noise-mapping application. Our results from real-world Twitter experiments give insights into the feasibility of this approach and outline the research challenges in sensor/smartphone integration to Twitter.
Reference REF describes that Twitter can provide an "open" publish-subscribe infrastructure for sensors and smartphones, and also pave the way for ubiquitous crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration applications.
Crowd-sourced sensing and collaboration using twitter
2010 IEEE International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM)
2010 IEEE International Symposium on "A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks" (WoWMoM)
Computer Science