LineKing: Coffee Shop Wait-Time Monitoring Using Smartphones

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Bulut, M.F.
Demirbas, M.
Ferhatosmanoglu H.
Date Issued
2015
Journal Title
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Language
English
Type
Research Paper
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Abstract
This article describes LineKing, a crowdsensing system for monitoring and forecasting coffee shop line wait times. LineKing consists of a smartphone component that provides automatic and accurate wait-time detection, and a cloud backend that uses the collected data to provide accurate wait-time estimation. LineKing is used on a daily basis by hundreds of users to monitor the wait-times of a coffee shop in the University at Buffalo, SUNY. The novel wait-time estimation algorithms of LineKing deployed at the cloud backend provide median absolute errors of less than 3 minutes. © 2002-2012 IEEE.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2014.2384032
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