Title
Atmos: a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to weather estimation
Abstract
Motivated by the novel paradigm of participatory sensing in collecting in situ automated data and human input we introduce the Atmos platform. Atmos leverages a crowd-sourcing network of mobile devices for the collection of in situ weather related sensory data, provided by available on-board sensors, along with human input, to generate highly localized information about current and future weather conditions. In this paper, we share our first insights of an 8-month long deployment of Atmos mobile app on Google Play that gathered data from a total of 9 countries across 3 continents. Furthermore, we describe the underlying system infrastructure and showcase how a hybrid people-centric and environment-centric approach to weather estimation could benefit forecasting. Finally, we present our preliminary results originating from questionnaires inquiring into how people perceive the weather, how they use technology to know about the weather and how it affects their habits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2638728.2638780
UbiComp Adjunct
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile sensing,smart cities,sensor networks,general,crowd sensing
Mobile sensing,Mobile app,Software deployment,Crowdsourcing,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Mobile device,Participatory sensing,Wireless sensor network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.46
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Evangelos Niforatos18316.53
Pedro Campos2104.94
Athanasios Vourvopoulos36412.30
André Dória430.46
Marc Langheinrich51774203.16