Poster abstract: ENav - A smartphone-based energy efficient vehicular navigation system

Shaohan Hu, Lu Su, Shen Li, Shiguang Wang, Chenji Pan, Siyu Gu, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Hengchang Liu, Suman Nath, Romit Roy Choudhury, Tarek F. Abdelzaher

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Abstract

We present eNav, a smartphone-based vehicular GPS navigation system that has an energy-saving location sensing mode capable of drastically reducing navigation energy needs. Traditional implementations sample the phone GPS at the highest possible rate (usually 1Hz) to ensure constant highest possible localization accuracy. This practice results in excessive phone battery consumption and reduces the attainable length of a navigation session. The seemingly most common solution would be to always use a car-charger and keep the phone plugged-in during navigation at all times. However, according to a comprehensive survey we conducted, only a small percent of people would actually always carry around their phones' car-chargers and cables, as doing so is inconvenient and defeats the true 'wireless' nature of mobile phones. In addressing this problem, eNav exploits the phone's lower-energy on-board motion sensors for approximate location sensing when the vehicle is sufficiently far from the next navigation waypoint, using actual GPS sampling only when close. Our user study shows that, while remaining virtually transparent to users, eNav can reduce navigation energy consumption by over 80% without compromising navigation quality or user experience.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIPSN 2014 - Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (Part of CPS Week)
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages281-282
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781479931460
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2014 - Berlin, Germany
Duration: Apr 15 2014Apr 17 2014

Publication series

NameIPSN 2014 - Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (Part of CPS Week)

Other

Other13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2014
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period4/15/144/17/14

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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