What Was ElectroSense?
The ElectroSense network was a crowd-sourcing initiative to collect and analyse spectrum data. It used small radio sensors based on cheap commodity hardware and offers aggregated spectrum information over an open API.
The initiative's goal was to sense the entire spectrum in populated regions of the world and to make the data available in real-time for different kinds of stakeholders which require a deeper knowledge of the actual spectrum usage.
ElectroSense was an open initiative in which everyone can contribute with spectrum measurements and access the collected data.
About ElectroSense
Datasets
ElectroSense provided access to large-scale spectrum datasets, including power spectral density (PSD) and I/Q data collected via distributed low-cost sensors. Users could download historical measurements or request data through the open API.
Weather Balloon Measurements
The full dataset of weather balloon measurements as described in our MobiSys '20 paper:
SkySense: Terrestrial and Aerial Spectrum Use Analysed Using Lightweight Sensing Technology with Weather Balloons
B. Reynders, F. Minucci, E. Perenda, H. Sallouha, R. Calvo-Palomino, Y. Lizarribar, M. Fuchs, M. Schäfer, M. Engel, B. Van den Bergh, S. Pollin, D. Giustiniano, G. Bovet, V. Lenders
The 18th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys), 15–19 June 2020, Toronto, Canada.
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Open Source
The ElectroSense project published its hardware and software as open source. Designs for sensors and software components were made publicly available for collaboration and transparency.
Browse our repositories: ElectroSense on GitHub.
Publications
The ElectroSense team has produced several scientific papers describing the system architecture, signal processing methods, and big data analytics.
View the full list of publications: Publications page.
Live Spectrum Monitoring
ElectroSense enabled users to monitor the spectrum of any sensor worldwide using an interactive web app.
Features
Interactive Web App
Live and historical spectrum data was accessible through an interactive web interface.
API
Access real-time spectrum data measurements through an open API.