EnviroMic: Towards Cooperative Storage and Retrieval in Audio Sensor Networks

  • Authors:
  • Liqian Luo;Qing Cao;Chengdu Huang;Tarek Abdelzaher;John A. Stankovic;Michael Ward

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Univ.of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;Univ. of Virginia;Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Venue:
  • ICDCS '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents EnviroMic, a novel distributed acoustic monitoring, storage, and trace retrieval system. Audio rep- resents one of the least exploited modalities in sensor net- works to date. The relatively high frequency and large size of audio traces motivate distributed algorithms for coordi- nating recording tasks, reducing redundancy of data stored by nearby sensors, filtering out silence, and balancing stor- age utilization in the network. Applications of acoustic monitoring with EnviroMic range from the study of mating rituals and social behavior of animals in the wild to au- dio surveillance of military targets. EnviroMic is designed for disconnected operation, where the luxury of having a basestation cannot be assumed. We implement the system on a TinyOS-based platform and systematically evaluate its performance through both indoor testbed experiments and a preliminary outdoor deployment. Results demonstrate up to a 4-fold improvement in effective storage capacity of the network compared to uncoordinated recording.