A new project is no being undertaken at the University of Glasgow
to develop a search engine results from sensors.
The European funded project is known as SMART--“Search engine for
Multimedia Environment generated content” aims to develop and implement a
system to allow internet users to search and analyze data from these sensors.
A Matching search queries with information from sensors and
reference materials from Twitter, users will be able to receive detailed
responses like “How congested are the traffic situations in Bangalore?” or “What
are the various movies my friends have been to recently?”.
By matching search queries with information from sensors and
cross-referencing data from social networks such as Twitter, users will be able
to receive detailed responses to questions such as “What part of the city hosts
live music events which my friends have been to recently?” or “How busy is the
city center?”.
Currently Google can’t answer such search queries of this type.
Dr Iadh Ounis, of the University of Glasgow said: “The SMART
engine will be able to answer high-level queries by automatically identifying
cameras, microphones and other sensors that can contribute to the query, then synthesizing
results stemming from distributed sources in an intelligent way.”
SMART is likely to be tested outside of these labs by 2014.
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