Positioning and person identification systems have gained maturity in recent years, and have enabled a plethora of applications from location-aware content delivery in commercial applications to people and asset tracking and efficiency solutions in the workplace. In this talk, I will provide an overview of some of the research challenges arising from developing such cyber physical systems in the wild. I will then discuss privacy issues associated with collecting and storing rich sensor data for personalisation systems.
Niki Trigoni is Professor at the Oxford Department of Computer Science, heading the Cyber Physical Systems Group. Her interests lie in localisation and people identification protocols for GPS-denied environments using a variety of sensor modalities, including inertial, visual, magnetic and radio signals. She has applied her work to a number of application scenarios, including agile asset monitoring for construction sites, mobile autonomy with humans and robots, and worker localisation for safety and efficiency. Trigoni is also Director of the CDT on Autonomous and Intelligent Machines and Systems and Founder of the Navenio Oxford spinout.