Playing Smart

SMU Associate Professor of Information Systems Archan Misra wrote an article on the use of mobile technology and analytics, and crowd-sensing to set up an affordable infrastructure to support a smart city. Associate Prof Misra, together with his SMU colleagues, is carrying out research to demonstrate the capabilities of wearable sensing and analytics in public urban spaces. In the study, mobile and wearable data from opt-in student participants is captured in a large-scale indoor location system in SMU, from which the research team developed a group analytics platform and a queueing analytics platform. Associate Prof Misra is also exploring at SMU the use of crowd-sourced smartphones to provide opportunistic connectivity between low-cost sensors attached to everyday objects, and cloud-based real-time campus monitoring applications. Associate Prof Misra said that such approaches may then be adopted citywide to unobtrusively monitor the condition of various municipal resources, such as garbage bins and lampposts.