A Smartphone-Based System for Outdoor Data Gathering Using a Wireless Beacon Network and GPS Data: From Cyber Spaces to Senseable Spaces: From cyber spaces to senseable spaces

Eneko Osaba, Roberto Pierdicca, Eva Malinverni, Anna Khromova, Fernando Álvarez, Alfonso Bahillo, Fernando J. Lvarez

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Abstract

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and mobile devices are deeply influencing all facets of life, directly affecting the way people experience space and time. ICTs are also tools for supporting urban development, and they have also been adopted as equipment for furnishing public spaces. Hence, ICTs have created a new paradigm of hybrid space that can be defined as Senseable Spaces. Even if there are relevant cases where the adoption of ICT has made the use of public open spaces more “smart”, the interrelation and the recognition of added value need to be further developed. This is one of the motivations for the research presented in this paper. The main goal of the work reported here is the deployment of a system composed of three different connected elements (a real-world infrastructure, a data gathering system, and a data processing and analysis platform) for analysis of human behavior in the open space of Cardeto Park, in Ancona, Italy. For this purpose, and because of the complexity of this task, several actions have been carried out: the deployment of a complete real-world infrastructure in Cardeto Park, the implementation of an ad-hoc smartphone application for the gathering of participants’ data, and the development of a data pre-processing and analysis system for dealing with all the gathered data. A detailed description of these three aspects and the way in which they are connected to create a unique system is the main focus of this paper.
Original languageEnglish
Article number190
JournalISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Volume7
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2018

Keywords

  • CyberCardeto
  • Smart spaces
  • Open space monitoring
  • Data science
  • Geolocalization

Project and Funding Information

  • Funding Info
  • This work has been supported by the Cost Action TU1306, called CYBERPARKS:_x000D_ Fostering knowledge about the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies and Public_x000D_ Spaces supported by strategies to improve their use and attractiveness, the Spanish Ministry of Economy_x000D_ and Competitiveness under the ESPHIA project (ref. TIN2014-56042-JIN) and the TARSIUS project (ref._x000D_ TIN2015-71564-C4-4-R), and the Basque Country Department of Education under the BLUE project (ref._x000D_ PI-2016-0010). The authors would also like to thank the staff of UbiSive s.r.l. for the support in developing_x000D_ the application.

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