Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

Mobile crowdsensing (MCS) has gained significant attention in recent years and has
become an appealing paradigm for urban sensing. For data collection, MCS systems rely on …

Integrating disruptive technologies within smart cities improves the infrastructure needed to
potentially deal with disasters. This paper provides a perspective review of disruptive …

We present one of the first case studies demonstrating the use of distributed acoustic
sensing deployed on regional unlit fiber-optic telecommunication infrastructure (dark fiber) …

Modern smartphones are equipped with various sensors along with on-board storage,
computing and communication capabilities. Owing to these features, they can become an …

Cities are encountering extensive deficits in infrastructure service while they are
experiencing rapid technological advancements and overhauls in transportation systems …

Ubiquitous smartphones have created a significant opportunity to form a low-cost wireless
Citizen Sensor network and produce big data for monitoring structural integrity and safety …

This article introduces the use of emerging augmented reality technology to enable the next
generation of structural infrastructure inspection and awareness. This work is driven by the …

Modern mobile phones, featuring high performance microprocessors, rich set of sensors and
internet connectivity are largely diffused all over the world and are ideal devices for the …

Smart handheld devices such as smartphones are capable of sensing and interacting with
surrounding environments. This emerging capability of smartphones has resulted in the …