Research Article
Smart Tourist - Passive Mobility Tracking Through Mobile Application
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_28, author={Sanjana Viswanath and Chau Yuen and Xuefang Ku and Xiang Liu}, title={Smart Tourist - Passive Mobility Tracking Through Mobile Application}, proceedings={Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. First International Summit, IoT360 2014, Rome, Italy, October 27-28, 2014, Revised Selected Papers, Part II}, proceedings_a={IOT360}, year={2015}, month={7}, keywords={}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_28} }- Sanjana Viswanath
Chau Yuen
Xuefang Ku
Xiang Liu
Year: 2015
Smart Tourist - Passive Mobility Tracking Through Mobile Application
IOT360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19743-2_28
Abstract
Travel and tourism industry makes an evident impact on the world economy. Lack of real information on tourist sight-seeing places, is impacting trip planning for a major number of tourists. Growing smartphone users, increased sensing capabilities provided by smart phones, and the ability to share that data over the internet, presents an opportunity to build a mobile application that can provide an insight into mobility information through passive sensing. We have developed a mobile application to bridge the information gap by passively tracking tourist location and improvising tourist services using mobile crowd-sensing. Capabilities to cluster location data to form places of interest have been particularly focused in this paper. Finally, we present results for an initial experiment performed on a tourist to Australia.