MPhil Thesis Defence


"Moving Object Counting with an Ultrasound Sensor Network"

By

Mr. Min Gao


Abstract

Great benefits could be envisioned through the deployment of wireless
sensor networks for a wide range of applications, coving the domain of
commercial, military and home. In this project, we work out a Moving
Object Counting system, which can detect and track the movement of
pedestrians and counting the corresponding number. Such a system can be
applied in pedestrian traffic management, tourist's flow estimation,
optimized facility management, security surveillance, etc. Our design is
based on a cost-effective ultrasound sensor network.  We introduce the
implementation details related to our system, including sensor clustering,
time synchronization, node communication, and the system architecture and
deployment. We will discuss the major difficulties and challenges that we
have encountered, and propose feasible solutions to them. Extensive
experiments have been made, which evaluate the performance and demonstrate
the efficiency of our Moving Object Counting system.


Date:				Thursday, 25 August 2005

Time:				3:00p.m.-5:00p.m.

Venue:				Room 2465
				Lifts 25-26

Committee Members:		Prof. Lionel Ni (Supervisor)
				Dr. Gary Chan (Chairperson)
                        	Dr. Yunhao Liu


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