GITMob meeting no. 20

This session took place on 20 February 2020 at room L202A of Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). The topic of the session was Mobile Wireless Systems for Smart Mobility, presented by Ana Aguiar , a Professor at FEUP.

Abstract

Smarter mobility is expected to play a key role in the reduction of urban carbon footprint by changing the way people move. Mobile wireless systems can foster this change by supporting better transportation planning and by improving the mobility experience in more environmental friendly modes. This talk will discuss requirements, challenges, and solutions for both dimensions collected during 7 years of experimental projects in the field of intelligent mobility in the city of Porto. In the first part, I will identify challenges of using mobile crowdsensed data, and show how it may still be useful to urban planners. I will also describe our efforts to use data from legacy sensors and from a taxi fleet to estimate traffic in the city of Porto, in the context of an eco-routing application developed to demonstrate the potential of mobile IoT to support mobility.

Short Bio

Ana Aguiar is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto (UP) and researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT). Her research focuses on wireless and mobile systems, concretely vehicular networks, WiFi networks for mobile nodes, mobile IoT, and spatio-temporal data science for smart mobility. She is the director of IT Porto, where she coordinates the Network and Information Processing Group, and leads the Shannon Lab. She is adjunct coordinator of the Center of Competences for Future Cities at UP, operating the crowdsensing tool SenseMyCity. She was the CTO of CooDriver GmbH, a german start-up developing a solution for protection of vulnerable road users between 2016 and 2018. She lead the VOCE project on voice stress detection, and participated in more than 15 projects, in 9 of them as co-PI or WP leader. She published more than 60 journal and conference articles, is reviewer for several IEEE transactions journals, collaborates in part of the organising committees of several IEEE conferences (local arrangements chair of IEEE VTC 2018, publicity co-chair of IEEE WoWMoM 2018 and 2019, student travel grant chair of ACM Mobicom 2016 and 2020, TPC of Infocom 2018, 2019 and 2020), and is an expert with the EC.