CarTel is a mobile embedded system that uses mobile phones carried in vehicles to collect information about traffic, quality of en-route WiFi access points, and potholes on the road.
| Application metadata | |
|---|---|
| Area of expertise | Monitoring of traffic conditions and roads |
| Application name | CarTel |
| Website | |
| Platforms | WebApp |
| Sensors | Bluetooth, GPS, Wireless |
| License of source code | Open |
| Cost for use | Free |
| Engaging level | Opportunistic |
| Incentive techniques | Collective, No-Monetary |
| Type of access | Authenticated |
| Proposition paper | |
|---|---|
| Title | CarTel: a distributed mobile sensor computing system. |
| Url | http://wind.lcs.mit.edu/papers/cartel-sensys06.pdf |
| Citation | Hull, B., Bychkovsky, V., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., Goraczko, M., Miu, A., Shih, E., Balakr- ishnan, H., Madden, S., 2006. CarTel: a distributed mobile sensor computing system. In: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), pp. 125–138. |
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