Indoor Surveillance with Opportunistic Sensors: The Effect of the Propagation Model in the Source Localization Problem

The future pervasive internet will be an extremely complex environment, where communication and sensing functions will be integrated exploiting a multitude of complementary enabling technologies. In this framework, one interesting chal-lenge is the development of novel sensing paradigms exploiting diverse communication technologies. This contribution deals with a preliminary analysis on the exploitation of opportunistic sen-sors, working at typical communication frequencies, for indoor surveillance. In particular, the problem of localizing a cooperative source is faced and the effect of using an accurate propagation model in the data processing step is analyzed.