Making Sense of Sensors: End-to-End Algorithms and Infrastructure Design from Wearable-Devices to Data Centers

© Omesh Tickoo and Ravi Iyer 2017

Omesh Tickoo and Ravi Iyer, Making Sense of Sensors, 10.1007/978-1-4302-6593-1_1

1. Introducing the Pipeline

Omesh Tickoo¹  and Ravi Iyer²

(1)Portland, Oregon, USA

(2)3585 SW, Portland, USA

The electronic world today is full of (a) sensors collecting data from various sources and (b) applications using this data for various uses. Our smart phones contain cameras, motion sensors, temperature sensors, microphones, GPS sensors, etc. Smart watches contain these sensors and more, like heart rate sensors, body temperature monitors, etc. The devices that we do not carry with us have sensors that monitor the environment, like the smart thermostats that can monitor if people are home for automatic temperature control, and cameras, ...