Mobile sensing has been gaining ground due to the increasing capabilities of mobile and
personal devices that are carried around by citizens, giving access to a large variety of data …

Background and objectives Mobile and ubiquitous devices are everywhere, generating an
exorbitant amount of data. New generations of healthcare systems are using mobile devices …

With the continuous urbanization and industrial growth, the concern about deteriorating air
quality is also increasing. This directly impacts the human health and sustainable …

Accurate estimation of localized occupancy related informa-tion in real time enables a broad
range of intelligent smart environment applications. A large number of studies using …

Predicting the occupancy related information in an environment has been investigated to
satisfy the myriad requirements of various evolving pervasive, ubiquitous, opportunistic and …

Mobile context determination is an important step for many context-aware services such as
location-based services, enterprise policy enforcement, building/room occupancy detection …

Occupancy detection helps enable various emerging smart environment applications
ranging from opportunistic HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air‐conditioning) control …

As the number of mobile devices grow, also grows the amount of data exchanged. This ever
growing amount of data may overload Internet Service Providers. A possible solution to this …

Mobile sensing is a relatively new field aimed at collecting data from sensors included in
mobile devices. In this chapter, we present an analysis of different trends that have been …

Participatory crowd monitoring estimates the size and dynamics of a crowd based on
position data shared by people in the crowd. At large-scale events, these small but frequent …