IEE Frenkel Fellow Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE ICIOT 2019

One of IEE's 2018-2019 Peter J. Frenkel Fellows, Nevena Golubovic, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE ICIOT 2019 conference! Her paper entitled, "Improving the Accuracy of Outdoor Temperature Prediction by IoT Devices Nevena Golubovic, Rich Wolski, Chandra Krintz and Markus Mock” looks at new ways to do environmental sensing using “The Internet of Things” that improve sustainability.

"In this paper, we investigate new methods for improving the accuracy of outdoor temperature prediction using small, low-cost, single board computers (SBCs) used in Internet-of-Things (IoT) deployments. Predicting temperature without dedicated temperature sensors frees up space on these systems for other sensors and reduces the cost of microclimate sensing (e.g. as used in IoT-based, agricultural applications). Our approach uses multiple linear regression and combines measurements of on-board processor temperature from multiple SBCs with remote weather stations. In addition, it accounts for SBC computational load through the use of smoothing techniques that filter out noise in the measurement time series. We empirically evaluate our approach using multiple IoT deployment scenarios, compare it against prior work, and find that it reduces prediction error significantly for these scenarios."