SBIR Phase II: TerraFly-based System for Querying and Control of Mobile Devices

创新是系统和应用编程接口、数据服务和设备控制，将地理空间可视化和数据库技术与移动传感器网络相结合。将开发一条产品线，从基于地图的流媒体和移动对象视频控制台开始。当前可用的地理空间应用程序不能处理实时、动态的大数据。许多政府和企业客户需要合并和分析来自多个实时和历史数据来源的信息。这项创新将先进的地理空间可视化和分析技术与基于位置的流媒体技术相结合，产生了基于地图的流媒体和移动对象视频控制台。该系统减少了从移动传感器访问大量视频流时的信息过载。用户可以选择一个位置，从该地区的传感器检索多媒体数据，并实时查看与地图上相应位置同步的流视频。该产品利用了佛罗里达国际大学(FIU)NSF中心开发的TerraFly技术。该产品线将能够对地理空间和时间中的数据进行复杂的分析；它将允许基于地图查看和控制大量移动对象和数据流。包括国土安全部在内的几个机构已经记录了对该产品的需求，并共同赞助了TerraFly应用程序。更广泛的/商业影响包括利用易于使用的技术转变减灾指挥和控制的潜力，这种技术极大地提高了用户在发生灾难时了解特定地点当前情况的能力。这将使这些专业人员能够专注于他们需要完成的工作，而不是处理技术，最终拯救生命和财产。该项目与为少数族裔服务的大学FIU合作，将为佛罗里达州的学生创造高科技工作和职业。国际影响力包括通过拉丁美洲网格(由FIU中心领导的计算机科学家联盟)进行知识交流，通过FIU的NSF国际推广项目进行学生研究任务，以及TerraFly在海地、哥伦比亚、巴西和智利的灾害和流行病地图绘制方面的援助。该系统的教育模块将促进在全国范围内和在金融情报组课程范围内学习计算机和环境。该系统将通过TerraFly传播，利用之前在科学和大众媒体上的曝光，包括福克斯电视新闻、NPR、纽约时报、今日美国、科学和自然。

The innovation is a System and Application Programming Interface, data services and device control, coupling geospatial visualization and database technologies with mobile sensor networks. A product line will be developed, beginning with a map-based streaming media and moving objects video console. Currently available geospatial applications cannot handle real-time, dynamic Big Data. Many government and corporate customers need to combine and analyze information from multiple sources of real-time and historical data. The innovation combines advanced geospatial visualization and analytics technologies with location-based media streaming technology, to produce a map-based streaming media and moving objects video console. This system reduces information overload in accessing a multitude of video streams from moving sensors. Users can select a location, retrieve multimedia data from sensors in the area and view streaming videos in real time that are synchronized with corresponding locations on a map. The product leverages TerraFly technology developed at an NSF Center at Florida International University (FIU). The Product Line will enable complex analysis of data in geographic space and time; it will allow map-based view and control of multitudes of moving objects and data streams. Several agencies, including DHS, have documented the need for this product and are co-sponsoring TerraFly applications.The broader/commercial impact includes the potential to transform disaster mitigation command and control with easy-to-use technology that dramatically improves user's ability to know what is currently going on in specific locations should a disaster strike. This will allow these professionals to focus on the work that they need to accomplish instead of dealing with the technology, ultimately saving lives and property. This project, in collaboration with FIU, a Minority-serving University, will create high-tech jobs and careers for Florida students. International impact includes knowledge exchange via the Latin American GRID (a coalition of computer scientists led by the FIU Center), student research missions via the NSF international outreach projects at FIU, and TerraFly assistance to Haiti, Columbia, Brazil, and Chile in disaster and epidemics mapping. The system's educational module will facilitate studies of computing and the environment nationwide and within FIU coursework. The system will be disseminated via TerraFly leveraging prior exposure in scientific and popular media, including Fox TV News, NPR, New York Times, USA Today, Science, and Nature.