Urban Deployment of Bluetooth

Speaker
Vassilis Kostakos
Assistant Professor, LabUSE, Department of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Madeira

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

As part of the Cityware project, we have spent the last 24 months exploring the use of wireless technologies in urban space. In this talk I will present some of our experiences with Bluetooth technology. Specifically, I will present the software we have developed that is optimized for capturing a high flow of moving Bluetooth devices in a city context. I will also present some of our findings from deploying Bluetooth “honeypots”, which will accept any file sent to them. Furthermore, I will talk about our ongoing work in studying the diffusion patterns of Bluetooth viruses, the flu, and the Ebola virus in a city. Finally, I will describe “Cityware for Facebook”, which acts as a user front-end to the large amounts of data we have collected.

Speaker's Bio

Vassilis Kostakos holds a BSc in Computer Science, and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Bath. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Dept of Mathematics and Engineering, University of Madeira, Portugal. Vassilis is a member of the Cityware project, which addresses the fusion of urban space and pervasive technologies. His research interests include: mobile and pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, interaction techniques, complex network analysis, security and privacy, modelling and simulation, epidemics, and crime.

Speaker's Website
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~vassilis/