Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

• FIL Grant, 2018

  Participants: Hervé Rivano

  The partners of this project, supported by the Fédération d'Informatique de Lyon, are: CITI, LIP.

  The goal is to use crow-sensing applications with data collection of Wi-Fi networks which are available in the neighborhood in order i) to build a map of the wireless network in terms of performance for the application and ii) to optimize the wireless network configuration.

• Labex IMU UrPolSens,10/2015-10/2018

  Participants: Walid Bechkit, Amjed Belkhiri, Ahmed Boubrima, Hervé Rivano

  The partners in this project are Ifsttar, LMFA, EVS, TUBA, and Air Rhone-Alpes, with Inria Agora leading the project.

  UrPolSens deals with the monitoring of air pollution using low-cost sensors interconnected by a wireless networks. Although they are less accurate than the high-end sensors used today, low-cost autonomous air quality sensors allow to achieve a denser spatial granularity and, hopefully, a better monitoring of air pollution. The main objectives of this project are to improve the modeling of air pollution dispersion; propose efficient models to optimize the deployment the sensors while considering the pollution dispersion and the impact of urban environment on communications; deploy a small-scale network for pollution monitoring as a proof of concept; compare the measured and estimated levels of exposure; study the spatial disparities in exposure between urban areas.

• Labex IMU 3M'Air 2018-2021

  Participants: Walid Beckhit, Ahmed Boubrima, Manoel Dahan, Mohamed Anis Fekih, Ichrak Mokhtari, Hervé Rivano.

  The partners in this project are: EVS, LMFA, Métropole de Lyon, Ville de Lyon , Atmo AURA, Météo France, Lyon Météo. Inria Agora is the leader of this project.

  The 3M'Air project explore the potential of participatory sensing to improve local knowledge of air quality and urban heat islands. The main aim of this project is therefore to equip citizens with low-cost mobile sensors and then ensure an efficient real-time data collection and analysis. This allows to obtain a finer spatiotemporal granularity of measurements with lighter installation and operational costs while involving citizens.

• ARC6 Robot fleet mobility under communication constraints, 10/2016-09/2019.

  Participant : Fabrice Valois.

  This work is a joint project with the Inria Chroma research group. Considering a fleet of drones moving in a 3D area, looking for a given target, we focus on how to maintain the wireless connectivity of the network of drones while the drones patrol autonomously. The other partners in this project are University of Grenoble and Viameca.

• Labex IMU Veleval, 10/2017-10/2019

  Participant: Hervé Rivano.

  The partners in this project are: EVS, LIRIS, LLSETI and CITI, with LAET leading the project.

  The goal of this pluridisciplinary project is to study, understand and model the behavior of cyclists in an urban environment with a methodology combining quantitative measurements of mobility traces and image analysis with qualitative informations from reactivation interviews. In particular the input of Agora is to provide crowdsourcing tools for gathering mobility data that are optimized for the practice of urban cycling.