Bridging physical and virtual worlds with electronic tags
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Revealing the Retail Black Box by Interaction Sensing
ICDCSW '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Building a Ubiquitous Platform for Remote Sensing Using Smartphones
MOBIQUITOUS '05 Proceedings of the The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services
MAX: human-centric search of the physical world
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Network-Aware Operator Placement for Stream-Processing Systems
ICDE '06 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering
Query Scoping for the Sensor Internet
PERSER '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services
IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Social disclosure of place: from location technology to communication practices
PERVASIVE'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Pervasive Computing
The sensor internet at work: Locating everyday items using mobile phones
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Anonysense: privacy-aware people-centric sensing
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Mobile phones assisting with health self-care: a diabetes case study
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Supporting a mobile lost and found community
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
AnonySense: Opportunistic and Privacy-Preserving Context Collection
Pervasive '08 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
Opportunistic sensing: security challenges for the new paradigm
COMSNETS'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on COMmunication Systems And NETworks
Inferring user search intention based on situation analysis of the physical world
UIC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Ubiquitous intelligence and computing
AnonySense: A system for anonymous opportunistic sensing
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Find my stuff: a search engine for everyday objects
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Find my stuff: supporting physical objects search with relative positioning
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
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Locating physical items is a highly relevant application addressed by numerous systems. Many of these systems share the drawback that costly infrastructure must be installed before a significant physical area can be covered, that is, before these systems may be used in practice. In this paper, we build on the ubiquitous infrastructure provided by the mobile phone network to design a wide-area system for locating objects. Sensor-equipped mobile phones, naturally omnipresent in populated environments, are the main elements of our system. They are used to distribute search queries and to report an object's location. We present the design of our object search system together with a set of simple heuristics which can be used for efficient object search. Moreover, such a system can only be successfully deployed if environment conditions (such as the participant density and their mobility) and system settings (such as number of queried sensors) allow to find an object quickly and efficiently. We therefore demonstrate the practicability of our system and obtain suitable system parameters for its execution in a series of simulations. Further, we use a real-world experiment to validate the obtained simulation results.