The increasing ubiquity of smartphones coupled with the mobility of their users will allow the use of smartphones to enhance the operation of wireless sensor networks. In addition to accessing data from a wireless sensor network for personal use, and the generation of data through participatory sensing, we propose the use of smartphones to collect data from sensor nodes opportunistically. For t...

Smartphones have become an integral part of people's lives during the last few years. Their wide range of capabilities and support of additional applications cause a wealth of information to be stored on these devices. Although tools are available to extract and view the data stored on smartphones, there is currently no comprehensive process that allows for event reconstruction using the collec...

Smartphones are increasingly becoming popular. All Smartphones have rich set of sensors, which can be used to provide driver assistant services. Services such as road traffic information and road condition to provide such services, there is need of sensors such as GPS, Gyroscope, Accelerometer. Now day's smartphones are coming with this sensor. Smartphone camera sensor, one of the most pow...

In the late 90s, web search has matured into systems that can effectively retrieve and rank documents from the web. In addition to handling huge repositories (the entire web), these systems can also handle an enormous number of concurrent user queries [7]. Despite these amazing feats, the search experience itself has remained relatively unchanged since it first appeared more than 15 years ago. ...

Pulmonary assessment is widely employed by medical professionals and has become an important marker of health. It is used for screening, diagnostics, and management of chronic pulmonary diseases like asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, pulmonary assessment has mostly been restricted to self-report and routine monitoring at a physicians office. Smartph...

We present QueueVadis, a system that addresses the problem of estimating, in real-time, the properties of queues at commonplace urban locations, such as coffee shops, taxi stands and movie theaters. Abjuring the use of any queuing-specific infrastructure sensors, QueueVadis uses participatory mobile sensing to detect both (i) the individual-level queuing episodes for any arbitrarily-shaped queu...

Smartphones constantly interweave into everyday life, as they accompany individuals in different contexts. Smartphones include a combination of heterogeneous data sources, which can prove essential when combating crime. In this paper we examine potential evidence that may be collected from smartphones. We also examine the available connection channels for evidence transfer during a forensic inv...

Smartphone usage has been continuously growing in recent times. Smartphones offer Personal Computer (PC) functionality to the end user, hence they are vulnerable to the same sorts of security threats as desktop computers. Cloud computing is a new computing paradigm and a breakthrough technology of recent times. Its growing popularity can be attributed to its ability to transform computing to a ...

Smartphones are now ubiquitous and valuable in many professions and yet have also been blamed for creating an ‘always on’ culture, blurring boundaries between work and home. Research has shown that checking e-mails out-of-hours via computer makes workers feel more overloaded with work but also increases their sense of coping. A total of 94 participants completed a survey exploring whether the s...

Smartphones have become an important part of organizational IT infrastructures including benefits such as increased productivity as well as IT security risks. These risks are mainly related to unauthorized access to corporate data. Integrating smartphones in organizations regarding security involves a sequence of decisions, ranging from the integration approach (smartphones owned by employees o...