Nowadays, smartphones have become ubiquitous and one of the main communication resources for human beings. Their widespread adoption was due to huge technological progress development multiple useful applications. characteristics also experienced a substantial improvement as they now integrate sensors able convert smartphone into flexible multi-purpose sensing unit. The combined use endowed with several types gives possibility monitor certain area fine spatial temporal granularity, procedure...

Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become the preferred, and sometimes only support tool when facing critical scenarios such as earthquakes, search rescue missions, border surveillance. In these scenarios, deploying a UAV swarm instead of single can provide additional benefits when, for example, cargo carrying requirements exceed lifting power UAV, or deployment several UAVs simultaneously accelerate accomplishment mission, broaden covered area. To this aim, in paper we present...

In recent years, the widespread adoption of mobile phones, combined with ever-increasing number sensors that smartphones are equipped with, greatly simplified generalized crowdsensing solutions by reducing hardware requirements and costs to a minimum. These factors have led an outstanding growth proposals from both academia industry. this paper, we provide survey smartphone-based emerged in past few focusing on 64 works published top-ranked journals conferences. To properly analyze these...

Air pollution monitoring has become an essential requirement for cities worldwide. Currently, the most extended way to monitor air is via fixed stations, which are expensive and hard install. To solve this problem, we have developed EcoSensor, a solution through mobile sensors. It deployed with off-the-shelf hardware such as Waspmote (based on Arduino platform), low-end sensors, Raspberry Pi devices.

As the number of potential applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) keeps rising steadily, chances that these devices get close to each other during their flights also increases, causing concerns regarding collisions. This paper proposed Mission Based Collision Avoidance Protocol (MBCAP), a novel UAV collision avoidance protocol applicable all types multicopters flying autonomously. It relies on wireless communications in order detect nearby UAVs, and negotiate procedure avoid any...

Mobile sensing is becoming the best option to monitor our environment due its ease of use, high flexibility, and low price. In this paper, we present a mobile architecture able different pollutants using low-end sensors. Although proposed solution can be deployed everywhere, it becomes especially meaningful in crowded cities where pollution values are often high, being great concern both population authorities. Our composed three modules: sensor for monitoring pollutants, an Android-based...

Noise pollution is an emerging and challenging problem of all large metropolitan areas, affecting the health citizens in multiple ways. Therefore, obtaining a detailed real-time map noise cities becomes utmost importance for authorities to take preventive measures. Until now, these measurements were limited occasional sampling made by specialized companies, that mainly focus on major roads. In this paper, we propose alternative approach based crowdsensing. Our proposed architecture empowers...

In this paper, we present a forward collision warning application for smartphones that uses license plate recognition and vehicular communication to generate warnings notifying the drivers of vehicle behind one ahead, probable when does not maintain an established safe distance between itself ahead. The was tested in both static mobile scenarios, from which confirmed working our application, even though its performance is affected by hardware limitations smartphones.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being widely used as a valuable tool in critical situations, especially when the access to target area is difficult or hazardous. In these swarm of UAVs can provide additional benefits by covering larger areas, thereby speeding up fulfillment mission, carrying heavier loads that single UAV would not support. this paper we present MUSCOP, protocol allows set properly synchronize their flight planned missions. The results obtained show MUSCOP achieves high...

In the past decade smartphones have experienced unprecedented adoption, being nowadays considered ubiquitous. parallel, their complexity has also increased significantly since current devices are endowed with different types of sensors, thereby having multiple sensing capabilities. By combining data gathered by it is possible to achieve monitoring any region interest a high spatial and temporal granularity, embracing crowdsensing paradigm. this paper we move in direction tuning so that they...

In this paper, we propose to use smartphones as an environmental sensor measure noise pollution. We focused our study on determining the precise context for capture of through smartphones, and performed analysis impact that sensing task collection will have energy consumption. To purpose, define different contexts determine whether adequate environment sampling conditions are met, then apply classification algorithms generate most accurate decisions trees automatically. An resource...

Our goal is to study the use of ubiquitous smartphones for designing ITS applications that would improve safety, mobility and efficiency ground transportation systems making their sensing, analysis, communication capabilities. In this paper we design an implementation makes optical sensor available in alerting users when not maintaining established safe distance with vehicle ahead. For proper functioning proposed application, minimum requirement a device equipped at least back camera,...

The increase of the automotive fleet, industrial development, and human activities cause environmental pollutions in air, damaging people's health. In this context, large cities incorporate central air monitoring that allow measuring pollution levels, but general, these are high-cost they few. paper, we to develop a system for quality urban environments applying low-cost solutions based on Internet Things (IoT) mobile sensors. medium term, Monitoring System will be complemented with other...

Climate change is one of the main problems that humanity facing, and reducing air pollution actions must be taken to fight it. Before we can reduce it, able accurately measure current identify contamination sources. In this work, propose use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) highest contaminated areas (i.e. source). We developed an automatic multicopter guidance system capable obtaining data from area in efficient, autonomous, precise way. Our algorithms move a UAV based on it measures at each...

Fog computing, an extension of the Cloud Computing paradigm where routers themselves may provide virtualisation infrastructure, aims at achieving fluidity when distributing in-network functions, in addition to allowing fast and scalable processing, exchange information. In this paper we present a fog computing architecture based on "content island" which interconnects sets "things" process data among or with other content islands. We then use case that focuses smartphone-based forward...

At present there is a great amount of information and data flowing through technological means; this perfect opportunity for the services electronic governments to improve their trust towards citizens. The probable success e-government lies in an increasing citizen participation its participatory processes; must be achieved by fulfillment characteristics such as transparency above all trust. Under these circumstances, work, we bibliographic review aspects governments, relationship between...

In this paper we present a forward collision warning application for smartphones that uses license plate recognition to detect situations where the vehicle behind does not maintain an established safe distance between itself and ahead. Warnings are generated notify driver of probable collision, depending on calculated two vehicles, making use images captured by dashboard-mounted smartphone. Thus, devices running our have be equipped with at least back camera, possess sufficient processing...