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Consortium Constructing Sensor-Based Search


An international group of researchers are developing a search engine to find and analyze data from Internet-connected sensors. Their search engine for multimedia environment-generated content (SMART) will match queries—such as “What part of the city hosts live music events that my friends have been to recently?” or “How busy is the city centre?”—with information from Web-connected sensors, cameras, microphones, as well as social networks, say researchers. Scientists from nine organizations—including IBM’s Haifa Research Lab, Imperial College London, and the City of Santander, Spain—built the system atop the University of Glasgow’s open-source search engine called Terrier. They plan to test SMART in a specific city by 2014. (PhysOrg)(University of Glasgow)(SMART)

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