SenseWeb Project

Description: This video demonstrates how SensorMap simplifies the temporal and spatial exploration of sensory data, using the Genepi deployment site of the Swiss Experiment project as a concrete example. First, SensorMap allows users to access the most recent readings of a weather station by a popup panel. Second, SensorMap enables exploration of historic data via time series charts. A comparison chart visualizes data for multiple sensors in one chart for direct comparison and correlation. Third, SensorMap can create contour maps for any selected sensor types in view, visualizing the spatial distribution of the sensory data. A time traveler panel allows users to go to any time point and see the spatial distribution of a particular time point. Fourth, SensorMap supports replay of contour maps over time to investigate the evolvement of an interested environmental metric over time and space. Finally, 3D support of Virtual earth allows users to see the sensor layout as well as the contour maps over 3D terrain, clearly presenting the interactions among them.

• SensorMap V3.1.20080807 released, 08/11/2008
• SensorMap V3.1.20080714 released, 07/14/2008
• SensorMap V3.1.20080514 released, 05/14/2008
• SensorMap V3.1 released: http://atom.research.microsoft.com/sensewebv3/sensormap/, 04/02/2008
• SensorMap - A Microsoft Research Request for Research Proposals (RFP): Awards Announced
• SenseWeb Project was cited in "The Year in Infotech", MIT Technology Review, 12/26/2006
• Microsoft's Plan to Map the World in Real Time,  Technology Review, 5/8/2006
• Adding Real-Time Info to Local Searchers, InternewNews.com, 5/11/2006
• Microsoft Research showcases future technology, EETimes, InformationWeek, CRN, 5/3/2006
• Microsoft Keeping Web Arsenal Well-Stocked, TheStreet.com, 5/3/2006

• Swiss Experiment - Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (some of the sensors are protected from the public)
  
  
  
  
• RFP Projects for SensorMap: Browsing the Physical World in Real-Time
  
  

• Data from SwissEx project
• Data from SEAMONSTER project
• Soil sensor data from JHU Life Under Your Feet
• Parking space data from a US city
• Traffic conditions and traffic camera images from Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT)

• Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz, Aman Kansal, and Feng Zhao, "Toward Community Sensing", ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), April 22-24, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
• Yanif Ahmad and Suman Nath, "COLR-Tree: Communication-Efficient Spatio-Temporal Indexing for a Sensor Data Web Portal", The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 7-12, 2008, Cancún, México. [BEST RESEARCH PAPER]
• Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing", IEEE Multimedia. Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 8-13, October-December 2007.
• Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "SensorMap for Wide-Area Sensor Webs", IEEE Computer Magazine, 40(7), pp. 90-93, July, 2007.
• Aman Kansal, "SenseWeb: A Shared Infrastructure for Internet-scale Sensing", Keynote at International Workshop on SensorWebsDatabases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2007), SWDMNSS is held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2007) Braunschweig, Germany, June 6, 2007. [slides] [audio (recorded over video conference)]
• Andre Santanche, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, and Feng Zhao, "SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time", Demo Abstract, ACM/IEEE IPSN '06, Nashville, TN, April 2006.
• Suman Nath, Jie Liu, and Feng Zhao, "Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide", First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web: Mobile Device Centric Sensory Networks and Applications (WSW), Boulder CO, Oct 31, 2006.