News:-Scientists Developing Sensor-Based Search Engine

I recently heard a news that scientist are developing a sensor-based search engine. Now a common question arises that "what is meant by sensor-based?”. Sensor-based means using sensors such as Camera, microphones, and many other devices or mediums.

Andthe project, known as SMART, for "Search engine for Multimedia Environment generated content", aims to develop and implement a system to allow internet users to search and analyse data from these sensors. By matching search queries with information from sensors and cross-referencing data from social networks such as Twitter, users will be able to receive detailed responses to questions such as "What part of the city hosts live music events which my friends have been to recently?" or "How busy is the city centre?"

Currently, standard search engines such as Google are not able to answer search queries of this type, the release added. Dr Iadh Ounis, of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science, said: "The SMART engine will be able to answer high-level queries by automatically identifying cameras, microphones and other sensors that can contribute to the query, then synthesizing results stemming from distributed sources in an intelligent way".

SMART is likely to be tested in a real city by 2014. The SMART project is a joint research initiative of nine partners including Atos, Athens Information Technology, IBM's Haifa Research Lab, Imperial College London, City of Santander, PRISA Digital, Telesto and Consorzio S3 Log.

For more information read Times Of India news paper...

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