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The Caltech CSN project collects sensor data from thousands of personal devices for realtime response to dangerous earthquakes

Faulkner, Matthew and Clayton, Robert and Heaton, Thomas H. and Chandy, K. Mani and Kohler, Monica and Bunn, Julian and Guy, Richard and Liu, Annie and Olson, Michael and Cheng, MingHei and Krause, Andreas (2014) The Caltech CSN project collects sensor data from thousands of personal devices for realtime response to dangerous earthquakes. Communications of the ACM, 57 (7). pp. 66-75. ISSN 0001-0782. doi:10.1145/2622633. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140811-131704662

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Abstract

The proliferation of smartphones and other powerful sensor-equipped consumer devices enables a new class of Web application: community sense and response (CSR) systems, distinguished from standard Web applications by their use of community-owned commercial sensor hardware. Just as social networks connect and share human-generated content, CSR systems gather, share, and act on sensory data from users' Internet-enabled devices. Here, we discuss the Caltech Community Seismic Network (CSN) as a prototypical CSR system harnessing accelerometers in smartphones and consumer electronics, including the systems and algorithmic challenges of designing, building, and evaluating a scalable network for real-time awareness of dangerous earthquakes.


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AuthorORCID
Clayton, Robert0000-0003-3323-3508
Heaton, Thomas H.0000-0003-3363-2197
Bunn, Julian0000-0002-3798-298X
Krause, Andreas0000-0001-7260-9673
Additional Information:© 2014 ACM, Inc. We would like to thank the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Foundation (awards CNS0932392, IIS0953413), and European Research Council Starting Grant 307036. Andreas Krause was supported in part by a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship. We also thank Signal Hill Petroleum and Nodal Seismic for data from the Long Beach Network, and the Southern California Seismic Network for data from the permanent earthquake network in Southern California.
Group:Seismological Laboratory, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
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Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationUNSPECIFIED
NSFCNS-0932392
NSFIIS-0953413
European Research Council (ERC)307036
Microsoft ResearchUNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:7
DOI:10.1145/2622633
Record Number:CaltechAUTHORS:20140811-131704662
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140811-131704662
Official Citation:Community sense and response systems: your phone as quake detector Matthew Faulkner, Robert Clayton, Thomas Heaton, K. Mani Chandy, Monica Kohler, Julian Bunn, Richard Guy, Annie Liu, Michael Olson, MingHei Cheng, Andreas Krause Pages: 66-75 doi>10.1145/2622633
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Collection:CaltechAUTHORS
Deposited By: Ruth Sustaita
Deposited On:11 Aug 2014 20:52
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