II-NEW: Vehicular Instrumentation for Green Sensor-Enabled Research

该项目开发了一种装有传感和通信设备的移动分布式车载试验台，用于试验车载参与式传感领域新出现的联网和应用开发挑战。该项目的动机是出现了一种新型的计算和社交应用，这些应用是由日常使用的传感器的激增而实现的，例如GPS设备和汽车速度计。这些应用程序依靠自选的志愿者社区出于共同利益的目的进行数据收集和共享。这个项目特别感兴趣的是有助于降低运输能源成本和碳足迹的应用程序。例如，通过共享关于速度、燃油效率和车辆位置的数据，可以开发更好的实时导航服务，引导司机选择对汽车最省油的路线，从而减少交通碳足迹。该试验台促进了对支持此类应用程序的几个研究挑战的调查，包括调查数据隐私、能效、容忍中断的通信、社交网络和交互复杂性的管理。目前还没有通用的试验台，允许研究人员为调查此类挑战的目的而试验非微不足道的现场车辆数据收集系统。通过建立这样一个试验台，该项目帮助开启了人类、网络和物理世界更多集成的传感应用的新时代，通过降低运输能源成本和碳足迹，这可能会对经济、能源和环境产生重大影响。

This project develops a mobile distributed vehicular testbed equipped with sensory and communication devices for experimentation with emerging networking and application development challenges in the domain of vehicular participatory sensing. The project is motivated by the emergence of a new type of computing and social applications enabled by the proliferation of sensors of everyday use, such as GPS devices and car speedometers. These applications rely on self-selected communities of volunteers to perform data collection and sharing for purposes of mutual interest. Of particular interest to this project are applications that help reduce transportation energy cost and carbon footprint. For example, by sharing data on speed, fuel efficiency, and location of vehicles, better real-time navigation services can be developed that guide drivers to routes that are maximally fuel-efficient for their cars, hence reducing transportation carbon footprint. The testbed facilitates the investigation of several research challenges towards enabling such applications including the investigation of data privacy, energy-efficiency, disruption-tolerant communication, social networking, and management of interactive complexity. No common testbed is currently available that allows researchers to experiment with a live vehicular data collection system of non-trivial size for the purposes of investigating such challenges. By building such a testbed, this project helps usher in a new era of sensing applications with more integration of humans, networks, and the physical world, which may have a significant impact on the economy, energy, and the environment by reducing transportation energy cost and carbon footprint.