SenseWeb is a peer produced sensor network that consists of sensors deployed by contributors across the globe. It allows developing sensing applications that use the shared sensing resources and our sensor querying and tasking mechanisms. SensorMap is one such application that mashes up sensor data from SenseWeb on a map interface, and provides interactive tools to selectively query sensors and visualize data, along with authenticated access to manage sensors.
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- SensorMap: http://www.sensormap.org/ (opens in new tab)
- Contact: senseweb (at) microsoft (dot) com
- Forum: MSR Forums » SenseWeb Project (opens in new tab)
- Tutorial: SenseWeb Tutorial (opens in new tab)
- Sample Code: Samples.zip (opens in new tab)
- People: Suman Nath (opens in new tab) (main contact), Aman Kansal, Feng Zhao
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Description: This video demonstrates how SensorMap simplifies the temporal and spatial exploration of sensory data, using the Genepi deployment site of the Swiss Experiment (opens in new tab) project as a concrete example. First, SensorMap allows users to access the most recent readings of a weather station by a popup panel. Second, SensorMap enables exploration of historic data via time series charts. A comparison chart visualizes data for multiple sensors in one chart for direct comparison and correlation. Third, SensorMap can create contour maps for any selected sensor types in view, visualizing the spatial distribution of the sensory data. A time traveler panel allows users to go to any time point and see the spatial distribution of a particular time point. Fourth, SensorMap supports replay of contour maps over time to investigate the evolvement of an interested environmental metric over time and space. Finally, 3D support of Virtual earth allows users to see the sensor layout as well as the contour maps over 3D terrain, clearly presenting the interactions among them.
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- SensorMap V3.1.20080807 released (opens in new tab), 08/11/2008
- SensorMap V3.1.20080714 released (opens in new tab), 07/14/2008
- SensorMap V3.1.20080514 released (opens in new tab), 05/14/2008
- SensorMap V3.1 released: http://atom.research.microsoft.com/sensewebv3/sensormap/, 04/02/2008
- SensorMap supports rich data visualization for the SwissEx experiment (opens in new tab), 02/29/2008
- SensorMap – A Microsoft Research Request for Research Proposals (opens in new tab) (RFP): Awards Announced (opens in new tab)
- SenseWeb (opens in new tab) Project was cited in “The Year in Infotech (opens in new tab)“, MIT Technology Review, 12/26/2006
- Microsoft’s Plan to Map the World in Real Time, Technology Review (opens in new tab), 5/8/2006
- Adding Real-Time Info to Local Searchers, InternewNews.com (opens in new tab), 5/11/2006
- Microsoft Research showcases future technology, EETimes (opens in new tab), InformationWeek (opens in new tab), CRN (opens in new tab), 5/3/2006
- Microsoft Keeping Web Arsenal Well-Stocked, TheStreet.com (opens in new tab), 5/3/2006
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- Swiss Experiment – Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (some of the sensors are protected from the public)
(opens in new tab) - RFP Projects for SensorMap: Browsing the Physical World in Real-Time
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- Swiss Experiment – Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (some of the sensors are protected from the public)
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- Data from SwissEx (opens in new tab) project
- Data from SEAMONSTER (opens in new tab) project
- Soil sensor data from JHU Life Under Your Feet (opens in new tab)
- Parkin (opens in new tab)g space data from a US city
- Traffic conditions and traffic camera images from Washington State Department of Transportation (DOT) (opens in new tab)
People
Suman Nath
Partner Research Manager