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Policy & Legal Framework for a

Location-Enabled Society

3 May 2013

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Internet of Things:

The Skyhook Perspective

Richard Sutton | Director, Geospatial | Skyhook

Skyhook Database: assembled to provide mobile location:

• Beacons db Currently contains:

• 750 million access points

• 12 million cells

• Growing 3% per month (mostly Asia,

Africa, Middle East (@05/2013))

the built environment is saturated with

internet-enabled things

access points raw positions

the built environment is saturated with

internet-enabled things

access points raw positions

the mobile environment communicates

with these things billions of times a day

location request intensity

Local Metro

cultural characterizations

cultural characterization: all scales

Is any scale too intrusive?

event characterizations

St Patrick's Parade

5th Ave, NYC

Large scale power outages (Hurricane Sandy (October 2012)

• Detection of missing beacon activity (over baseline)

Sunday Night (10/28-29) Tuesday Night (10/30-31)

event characterizations

event characterizations

BAA Marathon | finish line

2pm-3pm RQ signal set

Privacy and Utility Balance

• Security vs. Anonymity

• Convenience vs. Intrusion

• Opt in vs. Obligatory

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