On the Coverage of Bus-Based Mobile Sensing

Pedro Henrique Cruz Caminha , Rodrigo de Souza Couto , Luís Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa , Anne Fladenmuller (1) , Marcelo Dias de Amorim (1)

1 NPA - Networks and Performance Analysis

A cost-effective approach to gather information in a smart city is to embed sensors in vehicles such as buses. To understand the limitations and opportunities of this model, it is fundamental to investigate the spatial coverage of such a network, especially in the case where only a subset of the buses have a sensing device embedded. In this paper, we propose a model to select the right subset of buses that maximizes the coverage of the city. We evaluate the model in a real scenario based on a large-scale dataset of more than 5,700 buses in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Among other findings, we observe that the fleet of buses covers approximately 5,655 km of streets (approximately 47% of the streets) and show that it is possible to cover 94% of the same streets if only 18% of buses have sensing capabilities embedded.

Mots clés: wireless sensor networks; coverage; vehicle-based sensing

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Informatique mobile; Informatique ubiquitaire; Réseaux sociaux et d'information [cs.SI]

Pedro Henrique Cruz Caminha, Rodrigo de Souza Couto, Luís Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa, Anne Fladenmuller, Marcelo Dias de Amorim. On the Coverage of Bus-Based Mobile Sensing. Sensors, 2018, 18 (6), ⟨10.3390/s18061976⟩. ⟨hal-01890866⟩