Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. 4th International Conference, MobiCASE 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, October 11-12, 2012. Revised Selected Papers

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LineKing: Crowdsourced Line Wait-Time Estimation Using Smartphones

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_12,
        author={Muhammed Bulut and Yavuz Yilmaz and Murat Demirbas and Nilgun Ferhatosmanoglu and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu},
        title={LineKing: Crowdsourced Line Wait-Time Estimation Using Smartphones},
        proceedings={Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. 4th International Conference, MobiCASE 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, October 11-12, 2012. Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBICASE},
        year={2013},
        month={2},
        keywords={Crowdsourced sensing Smartphone applications Wait-time estimation},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_12}
    }
    
  • Muhammed Bulut
    Yavuz Yilmaz
    Murat Demirbas
    Nilgun Ferhatosmanoglu
    Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
    Year: 2013
    LineKing: Crowdsourced Line Wait-Time Estimation Using Smartphones
    MOBICASE
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_12
Muhammed Bulut1,*, Yavuz Yilmaz1,*, Murat Demirbas1,*, Nilgun Ferhatosmanoglu2,*, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu3,*
  • 1: University at Buffalo, SUNY
  • 2: THK University
  • 3: Bilkent University
*Contact email: mbulut@buffalo.edu, yavuzsel@buffalo.edu, demirbas@buffalo.edu, nilgunf@thk.edu.tr, hakan@cs.bilkent.edu.tr

Abstract

This paper describes the design, implementation and deployment of LineKing (LK), a crowdsourced line wait-time monitoring service. LK consists of a smartphone component (that provides automatic, energy-efficient, and accurate wait-time detection), and a cloud backend (that uses the collected data to provide accurate wait-time estimation). LK is used on a daily basis by hundreds of users to monitor the wait-times of a coffee shop in our university campus. The novel wait-time estimation algorithms deployed at the cloud backend provide mean absolute errors of less than 2-3 minutes.