Wireless Sensor Network Deployment in Mobile Phones Environment

Participatory sensing is a rising and promising field, which utilizes mobile phone users as mobile wireless sensors to gather data. However, because of the randomness of its participants, it is necessary to deploy wireless sensors in the sensing area at the same time, in order to gather enough quantity data with satisfactory quality. The deployment becomes a challenge because participatory sensing processes are dynamic and wireless sensor networks are relatively static. In this thesis, we propose a framework for the wireless sensors deployment in the participatory sensing campaigns. The aim is to minimize the number of sensors deployed, while providing enough satisfactory quality of data. Our framework consists of several sub-models and has a great flexibility. The experiments prove a good performance for our deployment framework