EE Seminar: Review of Commercial Wireless Communication Microwave Links as a Virtual Sensor Network for Precipitation Mapping – A Real Life IoT Application
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Speaker: Jonatan Ostrometzky
Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Hagit Messer-Yaron
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 at 16:00
Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering
Review of Commercial Wireless Communication Microwave Links as a Virtual Sensor Network for Precipitation Mapping – A Real Life IoT Application
Abstract
The use of existing measurements from a commercial wireless communication system as virtual sensors for environmental monitoring has been recently proposed. In particular, measurements of the received signal level of commercial microwave links which are part of the backhaul of cellular networks are considered as opportunistic sensors for precipitation monitoring.
While initial results have demonstrated the use of the suggested technique for estimating and mapping of rain, as well as of monitoring other-than-rain phenomena, there are open challenges for the signal processing community. In particular, the amount and the diversity of the available measurements enable the use of some of the most advanced tools of statistical signal processing for optimally detecting precipitation events, classifying them, estimating the accumulated rainfall, and constructing instantaneous rain maps. We will review recent results and open challenges, demonstrating the benefit to the public good from utilizing the opportunistic-sensing approach as an IoT application.
