Citation
Joshua Adkins, Neal Jackson, Branden Ghena, Brad Campbell, Pat Pannuto, Prabal Dutta. "Signpost Posters". Talk or presentation, 26, October, 2016; Poster presented at the 2016 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting.

Abstract
The era of city-scale sensing is dawning. Supported by new sensing capabilities, the capability to detect and measure phenomena throughout a large area will allow deeper insight and understanding into how cities work. The challenge of city-scale sensing is not limited to developing new sensing applications, however. A sensor must be installed in a location. It must be provided power, storage, and communications. All these tasks stand aside from the desired sensing effort, but are necessary nevertheless. In this demo, we introduce an initial prototype for a modular, city-scale sensing platform-the signpost network. The platform, designed to be physically attached to sign posts throughout a city, reduces the burden for sensor and application developers by providing the necessary resources to modules attached to it. Power is provided by harvesting from solar panels with battery storage, with each module allocated a certain subset of the system energy. The signpost platform also provides data storage, long-range communication, data processing, module isolation, and an installation point for connected modules. The signpost acts as a modular base station for researchers, citizen scientists, and other interested parties to deploy custom sensors for applications such as pedestrian counting, air quality monitoring, and RF spectrum sensing at a city-wide scale.

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  Joshua Adkins, Neal Jackson, Branden Ghena, Brad Campbell,
  Pat Pannuto, Prabal Dutta. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/893.html"><i>Signpost
  Posters</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  26,
  October, 2016; Poster presented at the <a
  href="http://terraswarm.org/conferences/16/annual"
  >2016 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting</a>.

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  Joshua Adkins, Neal Jackson, Branden Ghena, Brad Campbell,
  Pat Pannuto, Prabal Dutta. "Signpost Posters".
  Talk or presentation,  26, October, 2016; Poster presented
  at the <a
  href="http://terraswarm.org/conferences/16/annual"
  >2016 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting</a>.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{AdkinsJacksonGhenaCampbellPannutoDutta16_SignpostPosters,
      author = {Joshua Adkins and Neal Jackson and Branden Ghena
                and Brad Campbell and Pat Pannuto and Prabal Dutta},
      title = {Signpost Posters},
      day = {26},
      month = {October},
      year = {2016},
      note = {Poster presented at the <a
                href="http://terraswarm.org/conferences/16/annual"
                >2016 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting</a>.},
      abstract = {The era of city-scale sensing is dawning.
                Supported by new sensing capabilities, the
                capability to detect and measure phenomena
                throughout a large area will allow deeper insight
                and understanding into how cities work. The
                challenge of city-scale sensing is not limited to
                developing new sensing applications, however. A
                sensor must be installed in a location. It must be
                provided power, storage, and communications. All
                these tasks stand aside from the desired sensing
                effort, but are necessary nevertheless. In this
                demo, we introduce an initial prototype for a
                modular, city-scale sensing platform-the signpost
                network. The platform, designed to be physically
                attached to sign posts throughout a city, reduces
                the burden for sensor and application developers
                by providing the necessary resources to modules
                attached to it. Power is provided by harvesting
                from solar panels with battery storage, with each
                module allocated a certain subset of the system
                energy. The signpost platform also provides data
                storage, long-range communication, data
                processing, module isolation, and an installation
                point for connected modules. The signpost acts as
                a modular base station for researchers, citizen
                scientists, and other interested parties to deploy
                custom sensors for applications such as pedestrian
                counting, air quality monitoring, and RF spectrum
                sensing at a city-wide scale.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/893.html}
  }
  

Posted by Branden Ghena on 6 Nov 2016.
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