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Opportunistic occupancy estimation in museums through wireless sensor networks
Author(s) -
Viani Federico
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.29239
Subject(s) - occupancy , scalability , reliability (semiconductor) , wireless sensor network , wireless , computer science , estimation , microwave , telecommunications , real time computing , computer network , engineering , architectural engineering , database , systems engineering , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
A low‐cost and scalable solution for the estimation of indoor occupancy in museums (or, more in general, indoor sites) is proposed by exploiting in an opportunistic fashion wireless architectures already deployed for artworks conservation purposes. The information on the presence and the distribution of the visitors is yielded throughout the analysis of easily available environmental parameters. Indeed, the relationships between environmental indexes and museum fruition are inferred with a suitable learning‐by‐example technique. An experimental application to a real museum site is presented and discussed to give a proof of the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed approach. ©2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:1975–1977, 2015