LineKing: Crowdsourced Line Wait-Time Estimation Using Smartphones

Muhammed Bulut; Yavuz Yilmaz; Murat Demirbas; Nilgun Ferhatosmanoglu; Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

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.

Keywords: Crowdsourced sensing Smartphone applications Wait-time estimation

Published: 2013-02-06

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36632-1_12

LineKing: Crowdsourced Line Wait-Time Estimation Using Smartphones

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