Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 707-723Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2011.275
Keywords
Smartphone; camera; intelligent transportation systems; services; traffic signal; detection; filtering; prediction; collaboration
Funding
- US National Science Foundation (NSF) [CSR-EHS-0615175]
- Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Future Urban Mobility center
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems [0916246] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Computer and Network Systems
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr [1135953] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Ubiquitous smartphones are increasingly becoming the dominant platform for collaborative sensing. Smartphones, with their ever richer set of sensors, are being used to enable collaborative driver-assistance services like traffic advisory and road condition monitoring. To enable such services, the smartphones' GPS, accelerometer, and gyro sensors have been widely used. On the contrary, smartphone cameras, despite being very powerful sensors, have largely been neglected. In this paper, we introduce a collaborative sensing platform that exploits the cameras of windshield-mounted smartphones. To demonstrate the potential of this platform, we propose several services that it can support, and prototype SignalGuru, a novel service that leverages windshield-mounted smartphones and their cameras to collaboratively detect and predict the schedule of traffic signals, enabling Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory (GLOSA) and other novel applications. Results from two deployments of SignalGuru, using iPhones in cars in Cambridge (MA, USA) and Singapore, show that traffic signal schedules can be predicted accurately. On average, SignalGuru comes within 0.66 s, for pretimed traffic signals and within 2.45 s, for traffic-adaptive traffic signals. Feeding SignalGuru's predicted traffic schedule to our GLOSA application, our vehicle fuel consumption measurements show savings of 20.3 percent, on average.
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