Researchers from Carnegie Mellon’s Systems, Networking, and Energy Efficiency (Synergy) Lab will present their multi-year studies on their work around ubiquitous sensing at this week’s ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). Led by School of Computer Science Associate Professor Yuvraj Agarwal, the Synergy Lab is focused on developing energy-efficient computing in buildings, improving the security and privacy of IoT devices, and advancing mobile systems. The works unveil several innovative systems and explain how the collected data can be converted to offer useful insights, all while ensuring the privacy of the individuals being monitored. To address these issues, Agarwal and fellow researchers developed Mites, a scalable, end-to-end hardware-software system for supporting and managing distributed general-purpose sensors in buildings.
