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Title Vibrosight plus plus : City-Scale Sensing Using Existing Retroreflective Signs and Markers
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Authors Zhang, Y; Mayer, S; Gonzalez, JT; Harrison, C
Title Vibrosight plus plus : City-Scale Sensing Using Existing Retroreflective Signs and Markers
Year 2021
Published
DOI 10.1145/3411764.3445054
Abstract Today's smart cities use thousands of physical sensors distributed across the urban landscape to support decision making in areas such as infrastructure monitoring, public health, and resource management. These weather-hardened devices require power and connectivity, and often cost thousands just to install, let alone maintain. In this paper, we show how long-range laser vibrometry can be used for low-cost, city-scale sensing. Although typically limited to just a few meters of sensing range, the use of retrorefective markers can boost this to 1km or more. Fortuitously, cities already make extensive use of retrorefective materials for street signs, construction barriers, road studs, license plates, and many other markings. We describe how our prototype system can co-opt these existing markers at very long ranges and use them as unpowered accelerometers for use in a wide variety of sensing applications.
Author Keywords Laser Vibrometry; Smart City; Internet-of-Things; Ubiquitous Computing; Sensing
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S)
EID WOS:000758168000016
WoS Category Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer Science, Software Engineering; Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Research Area Computer Science
PDF https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3411764.3445054
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