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Award Abstract # 1035565
CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Enabling and Advancing Human and Probabilistic Context Awareness for Smart Facilities and Elder Care

NSF Org: CNS
Division Of Computer and Network Systems
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
Initial Amendment Date: September 7, 2010
Latest Amendment Date: August 22, 2012
Award Number: 1035565
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Sylvia Spengler
sspengle@nsf.gov
 (703)292-7347
CNS
 Division Of Computer and Network Systems
CSE
 Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date: September 15, 2010
End Date: August 31, 2015 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $749,998.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $757,498.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2010 = $749,998.00
FY 2012 = $7,500.00
History of Investigator:
  • Neal Patwari (Principal Investigator)
    neal.patwari@utah.edu
  • Sneha Kasera (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of Utah
201 PRESIDENTS CIR
SALT LAKE CITY
UT  US  84112-9049
(801)581-6903
Sponsor Congressional District: 01
Primary Place of Performance: University of Utah
201 PRESIDENTS CIR
SALT LAKE CITY
UT  US  84112-9049
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
01
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): LL8GLEVH6MG3
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): CPS-Cyber-Physical Systems
Primary Program Source: 01001011DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01001213DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 7918, 7924, 9150, 9178, 9251
Program Element Code(s): 791800
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

The objective of this research is to enable cyberphysical systems (CPS) to be context-aware of people in the environment and to use data from real-world probabilistic sensors. The approach is (1) to use radio tomography (RT) and RFID to provide awareness (location and potential identification) of every person in a building or area, and (2) to develop new middleware tools to enable context-aware computing systems to use probabilistic data, thus allowing new applications to exploit sometimes unreliable estimates of the environment.The intellectual merit of the proposal is in the development of new algorithms and models for building-scale RT with low radio densities and across multiple frequencies; the development of efficient multichannel access protocols for rapid and adaptive peer-to-peer measurements; the development of space-time and probabilistic data representations for use in stream-based context awareness systems and for merging ID and non-ID data; (4) and the development of a human context-aware software development toolkit that interfaces between probabilistic data and context-aware applications.

The proposal impacts broadly the area of Cyberphysical systems that reason about human presence and rely on noisy and potentially ambiguous (practical) sensors. The research has additional dramatic impact in: (1) smart facilities which automatically enforce safety, privacy, and security procedures, increasing the ability to respond in emergency situations and prevent accidents and sabotage; (2) elder care, to monitor for physical or social decline so that effective intervention can be implemented, extending the period elders can live in their own home, without pervasive video surveillance.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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M. McCracken and N. Patwari "Hidden Markov Estimation of Bistatic Range From Cluttered Ultra-wideband Impulse Responses" IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , v.13 , 2014 , p.1509 10.1109/TMC.2013.110
Neal Patwari and Joey Wilson "RF sensor networks for device-free localization and tracking" Proceedings of the IEEE , v.98 , 2010 , p.1961
B. Mager, P. Lundrigan, N. Patwari "Fingerprint-based device-free localization performance in changing environments" IEEE J. Sel. Areas in Communications , v.33 , 2015 , p.2429 10.1109/JSAC.2015.2430515
Bo Wei, Ambuj Varshney, Neal Patwari, Wen Hu, Thiemo Voigt, Chun Tung Chou "dRTI: directional radio tomographic imaging" Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2015) , 2015 , p.166
H. Gjoreski, S. Kozina, M. Gams, M. Lustrek, J. A. Alvarez-Garcia, J.-H. Hong, J. Ramos, A. K. Dey, M. Bocca, and N. Patwari "Competitive live evaluation of activity-recognition systems" IEEE Pervasive Computing , v.14 , 2015 , p.70 10.1109/MPRV.2015.3
Joey Wilson and Neal Patwari "A Fade Level Skew-Laplace Signal Strength Model for Device-Free Localization With Wireless Networks" IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , v.11 , 2012 , p.947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2011.102
M. Bocca, O. Kaltiokallio, N. Patwari, and S. Venkatasubramanian "Multiple target tracking with RF sensor networks" IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , v.13 , 2014 , p.1787 10.1109/TMC.2013.92,
M.L. Lee, A.K. Dey "Sensor-based observations of daily living for aging in place" Personal and Ubiquitous Computing , 2014 , p.1
Neal Patwari and Joey Wilson "Spatial Models for Human Motion-Induced Signal Strength Variance on Static Links" IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security , v.6 , 2011 , p.791 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2011.2146774
Neal Patwari, Joey Wilson, Sai Ananthanarayanan P.R., Sneha K. Kasera, Dwayne Westenskow "Monitoring Breathing via Signal Strength in Wireless Networks" IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing , v.13 , 2014 , p.1774 10.1109/TMC.2013.117
N. Patwari, L. Brewer, Q. Tate, O. Kaltiokallio, and M. Bocca "Breathfinding: A Wireless Network that Monitors and Locates Breathing in a Home" IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing , v.8 , 2014 , p.30 10.1109/JSTSP.2013.2287473
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